A Patient Is Admitted with a Laceration of the Forehead

question 18

Essay

A patient is admitted with a laceration of the forehead due to a collision with another player during a professional soccer game. On further exam, it feels as though there may be a foreign body, so the patient is taken to the OR for exploration, where the laceration was extended and a foreign body was removed from the subcutaneous tissue. The laceration of the skin was sutured. The pathology report determines the foreign body to be a tooth.

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