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Posted online: Monday, October 08, 2007 at 11:35:53 AM
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False Teeth Retrieved from Throat in New Zealand!

A team of New Zealand doctors who misplaced an elderly patient's false teeth during surgery found them four days later - lodged down his throat.



The Health and Disability Commission of the country on Friday last released a report on the case of the 81-year-old man, who never fully recovered his previous good health following the incident. He died within a couple of years.

The commission said the man entered a private hospital for elective back surgery in February 2005.

The commission found the denture was undetected for so long because of neurological impairment, caused by a cyst in the centre of the man's spinal cord. The fluid-filled sac pushed on his brainstem, damaging the parts responsible for swallowing and the feeling in the back of his mouth.

The man's upper denture, which doctors noticed was loose, was taken out before the surgery. But somehow, the false teeth managed to get back into the man's mouth, though no one admitted to putting them there and, according to a nurse, there was "no way" the heavily sedated man could have put them back himself.

After the operation, the patient told his carers he was in "extreme pain", and was given painkillers.

Under 24-hour supervision, nurses noticed the elderly man was "very chesty", spoke with a particularly husky voice, and couldn't eat more than a couple of spoonfuls of milky porridge at a time.
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