Primorye doctors saved a pensioner who swallowed a prosthesis. An 80-year-old man came to the emergency department at a hospital with severe pain in his upper abdomen. It turned out that a week earlier he had accidentally swallowed a removable denture. All these days he suffered and hoped that "his stomach would be fine", but his condition only got worse. During the research it became clear that the prosthesis would not be able to come out naturally. In addition, the mucous membrane was damaged, which created a threat of a rupture of the esophagus or the formation of a fetal hole in the organ. To remove the foreign body, endoscopists used a "rat tooth alligator". The patient is now feeling well and has already been discharged home. Photo: Olga Shukalina.

Primorye doctors saved a pensioner who swallowed a prosthesis. An 80-year-old man came to the emergency department at a hospital with severe pain in his upper abdomen. It turned out that a week earlier he had accidentally swallowed a removable denture. All these days he suffered and hoped that "his stomach would be fine", but his condition only got worse. During the research it became clear that the prosthesis would not be able to come out naturally. In addition, the mucous membrane was damaged, which created a threat of a rupture of the esophagus or the formation of a fetal hole in the organ. To remove the foreign body, endoscopists used a "rat tooth alligator". The patient is now feeling well and has already been discharged home. Photo: Olga Shukalina.