Case Reports in Dentistry (Jan 2017)

Traumatic Foreign Body into the Face: Case Report and Literature Review

  • Maysa Nogueira de Barros Melo,
  • Lidyane Nunes Pantoja,
  • Sara Juliana de Abreu de Vasconcellos,
  • Viviane Almeida Sarmento,
  • Christiano Sampaio Queiroz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/3487386
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2017

Abstract

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This paper describes a case of mouth opening limitation, secondary to a facial trauma by cutting-piercing instrument, whose fragments had not been diagnosed in the immediate posttrauma care. Description of an unusual surgical maneuver and a literature review are presented.