Tehran University of Medical Sciences Frontiers in Dentistry 2676-296X 11 6 2014 12 15 711 4 Anshul Jain Senior Resident, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, India. Shridhar D Baliga Professor, (Head of the Department), Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, KLE VK Institute of Dental Sciences, Belgaum, Karnataka, India. 2015 10 16 One of the complications during a routine dental implant placement is accidental ingestion of the implant instruments, which can happen when proper precautions are not taken. Appropriate radiographs should be taken to locate the correct position of foreign body; usually the foreign body passes asymptomatically from gastrointestinal tract but sometimes it may lead to intestinal obstruction, perforations and impactions. The aim of this article is to report accidental ingestion of 19 mm long screw driver by a senile patient. https://fid.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fid/article/view/389 https://fid.tums.ac.ir/index.php/fid/article/download/389/365