Author(s)

Andrea Beech^1*, Simon Haworth¹, David Michael Thomas², Jeremy Farrier¹

¹Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, UK.
²Department of Otolaryngology, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Gloucester, UK.

Nasally ectopic teeth are rare, but can be a source of significant morbidity. Symptoms can include facial pain, nasolacrimal duct obstruction, fungal rhinitis, persistent rhinorrhea and episodic epistaxis. A nasally ectopic tooth should be considered as a differential diagnosis for a radiopaque lesion within the nasal cavity. This case illustrates the diagnosis and subsequent minimally traumatic recovery of a nasally ectopic tooth, believed to be an upper first premolar tooth, via an endoscopic approach.

Ectopic Tooth, Endscopic Removal, Nasal Tooth

Beech, A. , Haworth, S. , Thomas, D. and Farrier, J. (2015) The Endoscopic Removal of a Nasally Ectopic Premolar Tooth. Open Journal of Stomatology, 5, 142-146. doi: 10.4236/ojst.2015.55019.