In The Lancet of December 10, 1881, there is an account of a vulcanite tooth-plate which was swallowed and passed forty-two hours later.

Billroth mentions an instance of gastrotomy for the removal of swallowed artificial teeth, with recovery; and another case in which a successful esophagotomy was performed.

Gardiner mentions a woman of thirty-three who swallowed two false teeth while supping soup.

A sharp angle of the broken plate had caught in a fold of the cardiac end of the stomach and had caused violent hematemesis.
Death occurred seventeen hours after the first urgent symptoms.
In the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London there is an intestinal concretion weighing 470 grains, which was passed by a woman of seventy who had suffered from constipation for many years.

Sixteen years before the concretion was passed she was known to have swallowed a tooth.