An Unusual Case of Guava Seed Embedded in Buccal Mucosa for Past 6 Months

Abstract

Foreign bodies in the oral cavity have included bullets, impression materials, teeth, fish bones, needles, plastics, pista chio nuts, earrings, and the traumatic implantation of a tooth brush and various food products.1 These foreign bodies have been found by, inspection, palpation or as incidental findings on radiographs. A thorough history may establish an etiology and timeframe in which the foreign body was embedded in soft-tissue. Foreign body implantation has been reported in the literature from long but exact nature of the specimen is not always revealed. This article documents a case of a foreign body which was a guava seed embedded in buccal mucosa for 6 months which was ruled out by its typical radiographic presentation.