Wenham Katharine, Craig Sally, Tsitrou Effrosyni
Department of Adult Dental Care, School of Clinical Dentistry, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
Dent Update. 2009 Jan-Feb;36(1):28-30. doi: 10.12968/denu.2009.36.1.28.
An 80-year-old woman presented to the restorative department at the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital in Sheffield for a routine review of her dental health with no reported trauma, pain or complications relating to the oral environment. A routine periapical radiograph showed the presence of a foreign object in the right maxillary second premolar region. An unusual case is reported of a retained gunshot pellet lying in the upper buccal mucosa for 70 years without the patient experiencing any pathological signs or symptoms.
