TOOTH IN SCALP
FOUND AFTER 35 YEARS
OLD FOOTBALL PLAYER,
NEW PLYMOUTH, June 28,
A strange sequel to a football injury suffered by a. former New Plymouth resident lias just occurred. Thirty-five years ago two footballers met in a head-on collision on the football field. Both suffered head and face injuries and were taken from the field unconscious. Only a few days l ago one of them had removed from under his scalp a false -tooth which he had carried without knowing it for the past 35 years.
The match in which the incident occurred was between Tukapn and Stratford, and was played at Stratford. When the two players were carried' from the field they received attention and recovered. Since then, however, the Tukapa player, who U now a resident of Palmerston North, lias experienced at intervals pains in the head. It wag thought that they wore just headaches and no further notice was taken, hut a few days ago lie felt a prominent lump on his head. He immediately went to a doctor. A minor operation disclosed a false tooth which had been embedded in tile, skull. Only after 35 years had it made its presence felt. The patient’s pains in the head have now ceased.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1933, Page 8
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