DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2017.v04i09.003

Pages: 392-396

Various foreign bodies are encountered to be embedded in the soft tissues in maxillofacial region which include tooth fragments, root canal filling material, burs, sewing needles, broken instruments, wooden piece, glass piece, tip of tooth brush, fish bone, iron pieces, stone, surgical gauze. These foreign bodies if not removed immediately get infected and might come out through sinus opening or may remain in the soft tissue and go unnoticed, resulting later with other complications. These foreign bodies are generally symptomatic and show signs of inflammation, pain and purulent discharge. Here is a case report of a patient presenting with draining sinus from left cheek region which on surgical exposure found to be a glass piece which got pierced into the left cheek and went unnoticed by the patient.