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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Doctors in New Zealand lost a man's false teeth during his back surgery but found them four days later — stuck in his throat.

The 81-year-old entered the hospital in February 2005, and his upper dentures were removed before the operation, a Health and Disability Commission report said Friday.
But somehow, the report said, the false teeth got back into the heavily sedated man's mouth. A neurological condition allowed him to cope with having them in his throat for days — though not easily.
After the operation, the patient complained of "extreme pain," nurses noticed his voice was husky and he couldn't eat very much, the report said.
Doctors put a laryngoscope down his throat, found the missing denture plate and removed the teeth.
Experts said a cyst in the center of the man's spinal cord had pushed on his brain stem, damaging the parts responsible for swallowing and the feeling in the back of his mouth.