If you have dentures, loose teeth, bridges, or crowns and you have to have any kind of procedure requiring general anesthesia, you’ll want to let your docs know about them. A 72-year-old British man ...

Here's why it's best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them. A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72-year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck ...

A man unknowingly swallowed his partial denture, causing an abnormal connection between his esophagus and trachea that required him to undergo two surgeries and eight months of recovery. The case ...

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It might be best to remove your dentures before surgery - or it's possible you could swallow them. That's what happened to a 72-year-old British man. In a case report published by the British Medical ...

Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them. A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72-year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck ...