Thai grannie, 80, needs emergency surgery after swallowing her dentures

 

Picture: Sanook

 

A Thai doctor went on Facebook to warn people who wear dentures to go to their dentist if they become loose or damaged. 

 

Dr Arak Wongworachat of Sichon Hospital in Thailand's south went on Facebook to relate what happened to an 80 year old grandmother who thought her last day had come. 

 

Gran had just had breakfast and after letting her food go down she prepared to take her medications for an existing condition. 

 

As she threw her head back to swallow her meds her upper denture went down her throat too and got lodged in her esophagus.

 

Struggling to breathe her relatives rushed her to hospital for emergency surgery.

 

It was successful and after a three day stay she was allowed home. 

 

And told to seek professional advice about those loose false teeth.   

 

Source: Sanook

 

 

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A proctologist will get the fright their lives seeing teeth looking back at them..

It must have left her feeling a bit down in the mouth.

She obviously never had heard of Kukident ?

Very unfortunate:-

 

2 hours ago, Deli said:

She obviously never had heard of Kukident ?

Or taking then out before..... no I'll get suspended again..
 

Was you belong in stand-up comedy, really funny!

2 hours ago, Deli said:

She obviously never had heard of Kukident ?

Neither have I .  My choppers are not bad they don't flop around when eating or Drinking . 

Reminds me of the joke concerning a man who accidentally swallowed his glass eye. Embarrassed the man told his doctor only that he was suffering abdominal pain. The doctor performed a colonoscopy, peered into the instrument eyepiece then said to his patient 'Mr Smith, you have to learn to trust me'......

5 hours ago, Burma Bill said:

Very unfortunate:-

 

this could easily become a new

 - 'I have a more gruesome orthotic than you' photo posting competition ???? 

 

(I get in trouble 'regularly' at the dinner table - as I can drop mine about 20 degrees, with a mere invisible flick of the tongue - good party trick to scare the Nieces! ) 

 

as a dentist, I can say that swallowing a denture, partial or full, would require some dedication to doing it