Taking medication swallowed dentures metal hooks almost poked the aorta! A few days ago, Shanxi Pinglu Wang old lady got up in the morning to take medication, accidentally swallowed four dentures with steel wire bracket into the esophagus. Dentures on the wire hooks, dead in the esophagus in the middle. Steel wire poked through the esophagus, next to the largest artery next to the human body, once pierced the thoracic aorta, the consequences are unimaginable. Under the treatment of doctors, the old man has now recovered from the hospital. Mrs. Wang’s family lives in Pinglu, Shanxi Shengrenjian Township, usually suffers from hypertension. At around 7:00 that morning, she took her blood pressure medicine according to her usual routine. After taking two tablets, she suddenly felt something stuck in her throat, and then felt chest pain and breathlessness. She tried to use boiling water down, tried a few times do not work, at this time, she found that their dentures when taking medication inadvertently swallowed with the tablets into the esophagus. Unable to speak, Mrs. Wang pointed to her throat while notifying her granddaughter at home. Granddaughter saw the situation, do not know what to do, rushed the grandmother to the city hospital. The hospital took a chest X-ray and found that the denture metal hooks stuck in the esophagus in the middle of the chest, due to the complexity of the condition, serious, whether gastroscopy or open heart surgery to remove a great risk, and even will not be able to get off the operating table. The hospital told Mrs. Wang’s granddaughter that the hospital did not have the technology to deal with this kind of condition and suggested that Mrs. Wang be transferred to an overseas hospital for treatment. Due to her family’s financial difficulties, Mrs. Wang’s granddaughter sent her grandmother to the Downtown Hospital for treatment. After examining the patient, the physician found that the denture that fell into Mrs. Wang’s esophagus was large and complex in shape, with four sharp hooks on both ends of the bracket, two of which were located next to the internal thoracic aorta. The difficulty and risk of treatment was really great. Previously, the hospital’s thoracic surgery department had successfully treated many cases of this kind of disease. Director Chu Shilu decided to perform emergency surgery for the patient immediately. After thorough preoperative preparation, at 21:00 that night for the patient to perform open esophagectomy foreign body removal surgery, intraoperative exploration found a total of four dentures, dentures with four sharp wire hooks at both ends, has pierced the esophagus, one end of the two wire hooks stuck in the immediate vicinity of the aortic arch of the side. At any time there is a puncture of the aorta hemorrhage shock, endangering the patient’s life. With years of rich surgical experience, the two physicians meticulously removed the huge esophageal foreign body from the patient’s esophagus. Everyone’s heart was finally put down. After careful treatment, Mrs. Wang is now fully recovered and discharged from the hospital, she and her family praised the exquisite medical technology of Downtown Hospital and expressed their thanks again and again. The director of cardiothoracic surgery said that Mrs. Wang’s experience is not an isolated case, and that every year they encounter some patients who accidentally swallow their dentures. As the esophagus is close to the thoracic aorta, the steel wire hooks at both ends of the denture bracket can easily pierce the esophagus and then the thoracic aorta, resulting in hemorrhage and endangering the patient’s life. It is also easy to cause fatal acute mediastinitis after the patient’s esophagus is punctured. More than 80% of the cases of esophageal foreign body deaths are caused by dentures. Therefore, the public wearing movable dentures are reminded to be careful when eating so that the dentures do not bring trouble to themselves. In addition, if you find that the movable dentures use a long time and loose, we should repair or replace them in time. In order to avoid dislodging with swallowing into the esophagus and cause danger.