Surgeons dislodge man's false teeth from his voicebox

Doctors deduce 72-year-old must have breathed them in during a previous operation

A man who turned up in A&E coughing up blood and having difficulty swallowing has surprised doctors who discovered he had false teeth lodged in his larynx.

Doctors deduced that the 72-year-old must have breathed them in during an operation several days earlier in which he was put under general anaesthetic to have a benign lump removed from the wall of his abdomen.