A Patient Is Admitted with a Laceration of the Forehead

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 examination,it feels as though there may be a foreign body,so the patient is taken to the OR for exploration,where the area is incised and a foreign body is removed.The laceration is sutured.The pathology report determines the foreign body to be a tooth.