An Adult Patient with Pneumonia Due to Aspiration of Dental Prosthesis

In patients with a new and suddenly beginning of bronchial asthma and repetitive respiratory infection, one should consider the possibility of obstruction by a foreign body. In this case we present a male patient with pneumonia due to aspiration of dental prosthesis. A 32-year-old man presented with a 4-month history of dyspnea, chest pain and new    compliants of diaphoresis and fever persistend despite of antibiotic treatment. Then the patient consultated to our chest surgery department. After the physical examination of patient we made the fiberoptic  flexible bronchoscopy according to the uncertain opasity seen in the chest radiography. Later in the operating room, with the patient under general anesthesia, we extracted the aspirated foreign body, dental prosthesis, by rigid bronchoscopy. We should think about the possibility of foreign body aspiration for the patients with suddenly beginning of the complaints such as, bronchial asthma, repetitive respiratory infection, diaphoresis, chest pain and fever. Sometimes people hides the true anamnesis because of be ashamed or amnesia