Male 29 years old an unnamed come to the emergency room with complaints of leg swelling and very painful. To the doctor, he claimed to have stepped on glass or broken glass while outing to the beach.
Doctors who deal later found scars on the soles of the feet, on the sidelines between the ring finger and middle finger of his right leg. Wounds that show, most likely there is a foreign object into it and trigger the swelling due to infection.
However, when scanned with X-rays, there were no broken glass at the site. Doctors find it somewhat oval shaped object believed to be very similar to human teeth, but at that time no one thought how can there be teeth in place.
Eventually the patient was admitted, two weeks before he fights with someone she met on the beach. Just by wearing flip-flops, he sent a kick into the opponent's face so that the bone fractured jaw and several teeth date.
The men did not think there is fault teeth into his leg. Even 10 days later when the suppurating wound in his leg, he came to the doctor and the wound on the sole of his foot just cleaned and given antibiotics to prevent infection.
Only when true infection and swelling, this man came to the Emergency Unit and it was then doctors found no teeth on the soles of his feet. Once issued, confirmed incisor tooth is coming from the front of his opponent's jaw.
"We always think of all foreign objects piercing the body is dirty," said Zenon Pogorelic, MD, a surgeon from the University Hospital Split the reported cases in the Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery, as quoted by MSNBC, Friday (12/30/2011) .
Dr. Pogorelic added, teeth are very likely to trigger an infection when it penetrates the skin surface because it is always in contact with saliva. According to him, saliva contains more than 200 types of microbes that are likely to trigger an infection if you get into the injured tissue.
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