Bending down to pick up a phone while the elevator was being repaired, the man suffered a broken right jaw.

Recently, Vietnam - Cuba Friendship Hospital ( Hanoi ) received a case of a 26-year-old man with a broken lower jaw, broken upper alveolar bone, lower incisor area, and loss of all upper and lower incisors.

Dr. Hoang Phong My, Head of the Maxillofacial Surgery Department, said the patient underwent emergency surgery immediately afterwards. In the middle of last week, the patient returned to the hospital to have an implant placed so that he could eat and chew normally.

Man leaning on elevator to fix phone fell down right jaw photo 1 — A 32-year-old male patient lost all his upper and lower front teeth after a rare accident. (Photo provided by the doctor).

The doctor added a similar case of a 7-year-old girl. According to the patient's mother, this elevator is often used to carry clothes and heavy objects in the house. When the mother and daughter took the elevator from the upper floor down, when they reached the 2nd floor, the girl asked to go outside to walk down to the 1st floor. However, after the girl stepped off the elevator, the mother pressed the command for the elevator to go down, the girl suddenly looked into the elevator and her head was pulled into it.

The American doctor said the patient was admitted to the hospital with a complex 10cm long soft tissue wound on the left cheek, with heavy bleeding and fractures of the upper and lower left jaw alveolar bone. The doctors immediately stopped the bleeding, sutured the soft tissue wound on the cheek, fixed the upper and lower alveolar bone, removed the decayed baby teeth that had fallen out of their sockets, and realigned the alveolar bone in the front area.

American doctors recommend that in cases of domestic accidents, including elevator accidents, the patient should be quickly taken to the nearest medical facility for emergency care and treatment.

Thu Phuong

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