Fn. Hyman et al., EATING AS A HAZARD TO HEALTH - PREVENTING, TREATING DENTAL INJURIES CAUSED BY FOREIGN OBJECTS IN FOOD, The Journal of the American Dental Association, 124(11), 1993, pp. 65-69
The Food and Drug Administration maintains a passive surveillance syst
em for reporting and follow-up of complaints related to food items. Th
e most commonly reported complaint is the discovery of foreign objects
in food. The most common injuries are abrasions to the throat and buc
cal mucosa. Although dentists are qualified to treat oral injury resul
ting from foreign object ingestion, more physicians than dental profes
sionals treat soft tissue trauma.