In 2008, DrBicuspid.com reported on a curious case of an elderly patient who swallowed a screwdriver and aspirated a wrench during two different dental appointments with the same practitioner. Now a ...

Majority of those kids will be fine. The swallowed object will drop into their stomach, wind through their intestine and (ahem) "pass" a few days later without incident. But sometimes it can be more ...

A study published Friday in the Journal of Pediatrics announced the rate that children swallow foreign objects has been rising sharply over the last 21 years. Children under the age of six accounts ...