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Chronic pain associated with a foreign body left under the soft tissue flap during periapical surgery
M O Ludlow1, C V Brenneise, R T Haft
1Department of Endodontics, Creighton University, School of Dentistry, Omaha, NE 68178.
Journal of Endodontics
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
A case is reported of a patient who requested treatment for chronic pain of 7 yr duration. After several unsuccessful endodontic procedures, a cotton pellet was discovered under the soft tissue near the apex of the left maxillary cuspid. It was theorized that the cotton was left under the tissue flap during a previous apicoectomy procedure. After the cotton was removed the patient subsequentially reported that the pain was relieved.