An Extra - Stomodeul Location of Tooth Causing Epistaxis – Role of Dental Surgeon

The persistence of tooth outside stomodeum i.e. oral cavity is a rare phenomenon which may cause different problems due to its unusual location. As a dental surgeon we regularly have faced intraoral bleeding, on the other hand epistaxis is a common disorder in children that is frequently manifested by bleeding from nose due to irritation in the nasal mucosa commonly faced by the ENT specialist. Common causes of manifestation of epistaxis may be local inflammatory diseases of the nose, infections, vascular malformations, and trauma. We have reported a case of recurrent epistaxis due to an ectopic tooth in the nasal cavity in this article. In this case ENT specialist has referred this case to us for proper evaluation.

Author(s): Shabnam Zahir, Sudipta Kar, Pratik Kumar Lahiri and Subrata Sarkar

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