Medical Must-See: Toddler’s brush with oral abscess
The two-year-old’s doctors said careful attention should be paid to evidence of abscess formation after toothbrush trauma.
Head and facial injuries in young children, especially after taking a tumble while running with objects in their mouths, are not that uncommon.
But for one unlucky toddler, the offending item — a toothbrush — resulted in a complicated infection and a week-long stay in hospital, report Japanese doctors.
The two-year-old boy fell while running with a toothbrush in his mouth, which punctured his right buccal mucosa.
The bleeding stopped after five minutes, and the boy was not taken to hospital, the case report authors wrote in Cureus.
