Främmande objekt funna i samband med rutin behandling hos tandläkaren. Amalgam vilket innehåller 50% kvicksilver stannar som sagt inte kvar i tanden utan tar sig vidare ut i övrig vävnad.

Foreign bodies discovered during routine dental treatment

While numerous medical reports and studies describe foreign bodies embedded in the soft tissue of the oral cavity either by traumatic injury or caused unexpectedly by a practitioner (i.e., iatrogenic), amalgam was found to be among the most common embedded material.1 This case report describes an incidental finding of amalgam foreign bodies during routine dental care.

It also describes the usefulness of cone-beam CT 3-D in detecting the presence of such foreign bodies and their spatial relationship to the adjacent anatomy.

While the public and some scientists continue to claim that dental amalgam causes health problems, other scientists and the FDA concluded that clinical studies did not establish a causal link between dental amalgam and health problems.2,3 This case report will discuss the entrapment of amalgam particles.

Case report

Recently, a 50-year-old Caucasian male presented to the VA New Jersey Health Care System Dental Service at East Orange seeking dental care. The patient came to our facility exploring, among other things, the viability of a dental implant in the region of tooth #30.