Severe Injury Caused by a Traumatic Toothbrush Impalement: A Case Report
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Islas Ruiz, María del Socorro
Noyola Frías, Miguel Ángel
Martínez Rider, Ricardo
Pozos Guillén, Amaury
Garrocho, José
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Universidad de Costa Rica
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The present report describes a unusual case about a buccodental trauma in a 5-year-old boy, who suffered a wound by toothbrush impalement into the oral mucosa, between the ascendant ramus and the cheek vestibule, also the diagnostic process and hospital treatment, since his admission to the urgency room, the injury surgical management, and the postoperative control.