Abstract
Dentoalveolar injuries are common and are caused by many factors. Dental trauma requires special consideration when a missing tooth or tooth fracture accompanies soft tissue laceration. A tooth or its fragment occasionally penetrates into soft tissue and may cause severe complications. This report presents a case of delayed diagnosis and management of a displaced tooth in the vestibule of the mouth following dentoalveolar injury. This report suggests that radiography can lead to an early diagnosis and surgical removal of an embedded tooth in the soft tissue.
Highlights
Dental trauma can result in a number of different injury types involving teeth and their supporting structures
There have been many reports of tooth fragments embedded in soft tissue accompanying a tooth fracture [3,4,5], but this case did not involve a tooth fracture
Cases involving displacement of a tooth or its fragment into soft tissue resulting in dentoalveolar injury have been reported in the tongue [3, 4], lips [5, 6], and nasal cavity [2, 7] but are extremely rare in the vestibule of the mouth
Summary
Dental trauma can result in a number of different injury types involving teeth and their supporting structures. There have been many reports of tooth fragments embedded in soft tissue accompanying a tooth fracture [3,4,5], but this case did not involve a tooth fracture. Cases involving displacement of a tooth or its fragment into soft tissue resulting in dentoalveolar injury have been reported in the tongue [3, 4], lips [5, 6], and nasal cavity [2, 7] but are extremely rare in the vestibule of the mouth. This paper reports a case of dentoalveolar injury in which a canine was embedded in the vestibule of the mouth and surgically removed from the soft tissue
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