PEDIATRICS Vol. 79 No. 3 March 1987, pp. 484-485
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Foreign Body in the Hard Palate

RICHARD H. SANDLER MD1, ASHIR KUMAR MD1, KURT A. RICHARDSON MD1, and ERIKOS CONSTANT MD1

1 Departments of Pediatrics and Human Development and Surgery, College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, Lansing

To the Editor.—

We present the case of a foreign body of the hard palate in an infant. After mucosal molding to the edges of such objects, the true nature of these foreign bodies can be obscured, often resulting in unnecessary attempted biopsy under general anesthesia.

Our patient was an 11-month-old infant with an asymptomatic white patch on the palate, noticed by the mother a few days earlier. Findings on physical examination were a comfortable-appearing infant, and an oral pharynx that appeared normal except for a white, hard, smooth, nonulcerative, well-demarkated, "punched-out" lesion of the hard palate, measuring about 1.5 cm in diameter.