Today I Came Across A Word I Had Not Heard Of Before,

but I guess it is well known amongst younger age groups,

illustration from jewelryshoppingguide.com from You Tube, the word is Grillz, they are cosmetic tooth covers fitted over the front tooth or teeth, made from gold or silver and sometimes jewel encrusted, so far so good, but not so good for a unnamed 22-year-old man from Wisconsin who, after recovering from an epileptic seizure, started experiencing severe coughing and heavy wheezing, He immediately thought medical assistance and X-ray scans revealed that he had something lodged in the right main stem bronchus, an airway to his lung, the 4-cm-long mass looked like dentures, and the man told doctors that he was wearing his silver-plated grillz when he had the seizure, and he couldn’t find them when he recovered, 

X-ray photograph Cureus Medical Journal, where the case was reported, eventually all was well,

the grillz extracted, from the report: 

"the patient was scheduled for a bronchoscopy to have the object removed. A bronchoscope was inserted down the airway to dislodge the dental accessory. The patient experienced bronchospasm – where muscles in the lung airway tighten – from the operation and was given steroid treatment before being discharged" 

grillz, never heard of them before and do not want one now!