Loose Tooth, a Way to Save It: A Case Report

A loose tooth is a great concern for anaesthesiologists either as a potential foreign body or a bleeding source. A 48-year-old male patient scheduled to undergo a lumbar discectomy had a loose maxillary incisor; he got his tooth fixed by using a thermoplastic external nasal splint. Different approac...

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Published in:	Turkish journal of anaesthesiology and reanimation Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 142 - 144
Main Authors:	Mottaghi, Kamran, Safari, Farhad, Nashibi, Sara, Nashibi, Masoud
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Istanbul Aves Yayincilik Ltd. STI 01-04-2022 Turkish Society of Anaesthesiology and Reanimation Galenos Publishing House
Subjects:	Case ReportGeneral Anaesthesia
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Summary:	A loose tooth is a great concern for anaesthesiologists either as a potential foreign body or a bleeding source. A 48-year-old male patient scheduled to undergo a lumbar discectomy had a loose maxillary incisor; he got his tooth fixed by using a thermoplastic external nasal splint. Different approaches such as modification in laryngoscopy or removal of loose teeth have been proposed, but fixing and keeping it in place is not a usual practice which was successfully applied for our patient. Loose incisors could be fixed and protected by using a thermoplastic nasal splint as a mouth guard.
Bibliography:	Cite this article as: Mottaghi K, Safari F, Nashibi S, Nashibi M. Loose tooth, a way to save it: A case report. Turk J Anaesthesiol Reanim. 2022;50(2):142-144.
ISSN:	2667-677X 2667-6370
DOI:	10.5152/TJAR.2022.1120