Caution: remove false teeth before surgery

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This is the story of a 72-year old retired electrician in Britain - let's call him 'Jack' - who forgot to tell his surgeon that he wore dentures.

"On explaining this to the patient, he revealed that his dentures had been lost during his general surgery eight days earlier, and consisted of a metallic roof plate and three front teeth," Cunniffe said.Such incidents are less rare than one might think. In one 15-year period in Britain, 83 cases of"aspirated dentures" were identified, according to the journal.Bouts of bleeding brought him back to the hospital a week later, and then 10 days after that.

His fifth trip to the emergency room revealed blistering in his throat surrounded by"wound tissue", which was cauterised to prevent further bleeding.On his sixth - and last - slog to the hospital, the doctors discovered a torn artery and performed another round of emergency surgery.As for the doctors, there may be a couple of explanations as to why it took them so long to figure things out.

One, called"anchoring," occurs with a physician misinterprets data to fit into an initial diagnosis that was erroneous, Cunniffe said. The other, known as"zebra retreat", is when"a diagnostician retreats from making a correct diagnosis because of self-doubt about entertaining such a remote or unusual diagnosis."

 

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