{"id":4331,"date":"2018-09-23T11:55:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-23T07:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2018-09-23T11:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-23T07:55:21","slug":"rak-asian-woman-saved-after-accidentally-swallowing-her-teeth-retainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/09\/23\/rak-asian-woman-saved-after-accidentally-swallowing-her-teeth-retainer\/","title":{"rendered":"RAK: Asian woman saved after accidentally swallowing her teeth retainer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at at Ibrahim bin Hamad Obaidullah Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah have saved a serious, urgent and unique condition of an Asian woman, 38, who accidentally swallowed her &#8220;dental retainer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Mariam Al-Khattari, head of the laparoscopy department at the hospital, who managed the medical team that conducted the operation lasting about 15 mins, a Filipino woman got her dental retainer removed from her stomach, after it had settled in the middle part of her esophagus after swallowing it.<\/p>\n<p>The sources said that the condition occurred last Tuesday, when the patient went to sleep, without taking off her removable retainer, and when she woke up thirsty later, she had a cup of water, which led to swallowing her retainer leaving her with a feeling of discomfort and difficulty in swallowing.<\/p>\n<p>She then immediately went to a hospital in the emirate, where the ENT doctors tried to extract the retainer to no avail, and after an X-ray revealed that the retainer is stuck in the middle of the esophagus, she was rushed to Obaidullah hospital and underwent the successful Endoscopy procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctors at at Ibrahim bin Hamad Obaidullah Hospital in Ras Al Khaimah have saved a serious, urgent and unique condition of an Asian woman, 38, who accidentally swallowed her &#8220;dental retainer&#8221;. According to Dr. Mariam Al-Khattari, head of the laparoscopy department at the hospital, who managed the medical team that conducted the operation lasting about &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}