This following story is also a lesson about being careful when eating! One woman who was munching on an Aldi mince pie accidentally swallowed her dentures in the process.
Watch to learn more about her incident!
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Angela McGill, 52, was happily eating the pie when she swallowed what she mistook as a piece of pastry. But she quickly realized she had swallowed her dentures and panicked.
Angela, who works as a caterer, wasted no time going to the hospital where an x-ray revealed that her partial dentures were lodged half-way down her throat. The good news was that she didn’t choke but doctors said that pulling out the dentures out through her throat would do more harm than good and was advised to just let it pass.
And that’s what Angela did for the next 72 hours as the dentures passed through her digestive system until she could flush the dentures down the toilet.
Angela, from Glasgow, said: “I think I made their day to be honest, maybe even their year. It was ever so funny!
“Obviously I wasn’t going to be using that plate again – as I say, all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!”
The mother of three is “finding the funny side to this right cock-up” but has understandably sworn off the offending mince pies forever.
She laughed: “I just couldn’t believe I’d swallowed my plate – how silly is that?
“And I was really enjoying the mince pie too, I just got distracted when someone I work with said my name and I gulped.
“It was rough, and really hard – I thought it was a tough piece of pastry!
“Then it went down, and got lodged at the back of my throat, and I thought, ‘Oh my god, I’ve swallowed my plate, I’ve literally lost my teeth.'”
She just had the partial dentures fitted last month as a replacement for the 40-year-old caps she had since she was a girl following an accident.
“I was swimming when I was about 11 when this boy jumped in the pool, knocked me, and then I clattered my teeth against the edge of the pool,” she said. “Forty years on, the crowns needed replacing obviously, so they fitted me with two front teeth on this plastic plate instead.”
Replaced!