BULLET IN MAN’S GUMS
A Kimberley (South Africa) dentist has had the amazing experience of extracting the stump of a tooth from a man’s gums and finding a rifle bullet clasped in his forceps. His patient, Mr A. B. Clements, had been suffering from sore gums for two or three years. Lately small ulcers kept on forming in one spot,- under which there appeared to be a lump, le concluded that it was the stump of a tooth, so he had it extracted. 'lt was actually a bullet which had destroyed his left eye during the war. His eye had healed satisfactorily, and nobody had dreamt that he was* still carrying the bullet about with him. It is believed that the bullet lodged in-, the cavity under the eye and gradually worked its way down to the gum.
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Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 7
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138BULLET IN MAN’S GUMS Evening Star, Issue 22619, 10 April 1937, Page 7
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