VietNamNet Bridge – A 12 -year-old girl talked to her mother while brushing her teeth, the tooth-brush of nearly 20cm long crept into the stomach.

The snail in a 4-year-old boy's stomach.

On March 27, Dr. Nguyen Van Dau, Head of the Dentistry – Maxillo-facial Ward of the HCM City Children's Hospital 1, said that this was the most special case that the hospital has ever treated.

The victim was taken to hospital in a state of panic. Through image diagnosis, doctors found that the toothbrush went through the esophagus to the stomach.

Dr. Dau said, as the toothbrush lied horizontally in the stomach, doctors could not use an endoscopy method to pick it out. Finally, they had to conduct an operation to take the toothbrush.

"Fortunately, the toothbrush does not have sharp edges so it did not hurt the patient’s esophagus and stomach," Dr. Dau said.

In another case, Dr. Nguyen Phuc Thinh from the Gastroenterology Ward of the HCM City Children's Hospital 1 said that about three weeks ago, he treated a 4-year-old boy who swallowed a needle at a dental office.

It took nearly two hours to take the 4.5cm long needle from the duodenum out of the boy’s body. His parents said the boy had to open his mouth for a long time during a dental examination so he swallowed the needle.

In early March, the hospital received a 4-year-old boy who swallowed a nail. It also took doctors nearly two hours to pick the snail which nearly fell into the small intestine by colonoscopy.

Le Ha