I heard that doctors advise you not to swallow your tooth, and if you do, you should contact 911 immediately because emergency surgery is required. Is this true, and is so, why?
2006-11-07 11:16:42 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Dental
If you truly swallowed it, then it should not be a problem. The concern is that if actually aspirated it rather than swallowing it. When you aspirate something, you actually inhale it and it ends up becoming lodged within your respiratory tract. If this was the case, then surgery or immediate treatment would be required. This usually is only a concern if you were inhaling and leaning back at the time that the tooth took its trip southwards! Most often when people swallow teeth, it happens while they are eating, and that can pretty much guarantee that it went to your stomach rather that your lungs. All I have to say is...I'm Glad I'm not the Tooth Fairy!!! Don't worry, if you don't have any symptoms, then it will pass!
2006-11-07 15:35:22 · answer #1 · answered by Dr. Jon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swallowing your tooth isn't that serious enough to call the emergency services. I swallowed my first infant teeth when I wash drinking through a straw. You do eventually pass it out when you excrete your solid waste. But yes, doctors do advise you not to swallow your tooth. Imagine if it got into a regular habit?
2006-11-07 11:43:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well isn't that a bite in the butt... You should be fine. "This too shall pass."
If you develop any strange abdominal pain in the next few days, you should get it checked out, but you should do that even if you didn't swallow a tooth. Just tell the docs that you swallowed a tooth if you need to get anything checked out in the future.
2006-11-07 13:00:25 · answer #3 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the tooth fairy will just have to take your word that you lost a tooth and just leave ya something anyways- unless she wants to wait a couple of days and fish it out of the toilet and clean it off. - if I were her I would just believe you- NO! nothing bad is going to happen, kids swallow their teeth all of the time, it will pass through your digestive system and be expelled in your fecal waste- only thing to worry about is if the person has inhaled the tooth and is having breathing problems.
2006-11-07 11:23:16 · answer #4 · answered by dances with cats 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
NO its not required! Otherwise I would have had to go to the ER like 5 times. I swallowed my teeth several times when I was young and nothing happened to me.
2006-11-07 11:21:46 · answer #5 · answered by milldogg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not true. It passes through the alimentary tract and exits the body, almost universally without any problem whatsoever. Do not waste a doctor's time seeking advice for this natural event (or should I say "non-event"?).
2006-11-07 11:19:20 · answer #6 · answered by finaldx 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no longer a lot, it relatively is going to bypass good in the process the digestive tract and pa out the different end. think of roughly it human infants accedently swallow their the teeth each and every of the time while they're loosing the teeth, a canines would be wonderful.
2016-10-15 12:21:20 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Will my cousin swallow his teeth buy accident laster his is going to poop out his teeth
2017-03-11 20:04:57 · answer #8 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please don't even worry about it. It is nothing serious, just like swallowing a pill or food - it will naturally digest and come out as waste.
2013-12-27 10:26:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not that I'm aware of. You will pass it through your system in a day or two.
2006-11-07 11:19:01 · answer #10 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋