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Clinical picture showing the lodged foreign object in
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F1
Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Institute of Dental Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India, with a chief complaint of pain in the deciduous right mandibular first molar tooth (Fig. 1). Patient gave a history of pain from the past 1 month.
IOPA radiograph showing radiopaque object in the canals of adjacent deciduous molars
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F2
Radiographic examination of the tooth revealed a radiopaque object overlapping the image of the tooth and a furcal abscess (Fig. 2). It was observed that the pin was lodged in the distal canal of primary mandibular first molar and distal canal of primary mandibular second molar (Fig. 2).
Pin being removed with the tweezer
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F3
When the ball pin was adequately visible clinically, it was engaged with a tweezer and removed (Figs 3 and Figs 4).
Pin after removal
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F4
When the ball pin was adequately visible clinically, it was engaged with a tweezer and removed (Figs 3 and Figs 4).