Multiple foreign bodies in the facial region from a penetrating stab injury.

Penetrating injuries can lead to multiple retained foreign bodies. To present a case of a penetrating stab injury on to the right orbital region of a 37-year-old woman which resulted in lacerations on both eyelids, loss of vision in addition to the retention of glass particle and woven artificial hair strands at the anterior end of the floor of the orbit. The woven artificial hair strand, being flexible in nature, was apparently logged in by the penetrating force of the broken glass used as the stab injury object.

Successful removal of strangulating metal penile ring using a dental handpiece.

Background: Under emergency conditions, the dental handpiece can be a useful tool for removing a strangulating penile ring.

Objective: To report the successful use of a dental handpiece (dental drill) to remove a strangulating penile ring in an emergency.

Method: A case report of a strangulating metal penile ring in a psychiatric patient who presented at the accident and emergency unit of Delta State University Teaching Hospital.

Giant ameloblastoma mortality; a consequence of ignorance, poverty and fear.

Ameloblastoma is a benign tumour of odontogenic origin. Although locally invasive, delay in treatment can lead to severe disfiguring of the facial region. In this report, we present two cases, a man and a woman, of a large ameloblastoma that presented with the typical radiographic features of variably sized radiolucent loculations.