Nail gun injury
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A nail gun injury
A 36-year-old right-handed male construction worker presented 2 days after feeling a sudden pain in his right maxillary area while using a nail gun. At that time, he thought that the nail gun flew up and hit him in the face without discharging a nail. He noted only mild pain and a small abrasion on his right cheek. Over the subsequent days he developed progressively worse pain and swelling of h...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Dental Journal
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0007-0610,1476-5373
DOI: 10.1038/s41415-019-0626-7