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Radio-opaque foreign bodies are commonly seen in dental pan-oral tomographs. A case is described of the presentation of a patient with a signet ring lodged in the left nasal cavity discovered by routine pan-oral tomography in dental practice, and of its subsequent removal by an otorhinolaryngologist
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Lloyd, S., Talati, V. & Ward, J. An unusual finding on routine dental pan-oral tomography. Br Dent J 176, 144–146 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.4808391
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