A DENTIST'S SURPRISE
A Kimberley (South Africa) dentist recently had the experience of extracting the stump of a tooth from a- man's gums, and finding a rifle bullet clasped in his forceps. His patient had been suffering from sore gums for two or three years. Small ulcers kept on forming in one spot, under which there appeared to be a lump. He concluded that it was the stump of a tooth, so he had it extracted, It was actually a bullet which had destroyed h> left eye during the war. His eye had healed satisfactorily, and nobody had thought that he ytas still carrying the bullet about with him. It is believed that the bullet lodged under the eye and gradually worked its way down to the gum.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 24
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128A DENTIST'S SURPRISE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 130, 3 June 1937, Page 24
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