Abstract:This report describes the case of an 84-year-old male who was brought to
the emergency room because a dental bur was swallowed accidentally
during a dental procedure. The foreign body was successfully removed by
gastroenterologists endoscopically 8 days after the ingestion and was
identified as a 2-cm-long dental bur.
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