From that time on she had suffered pain and distress in breathing and swallowing, and became the subject of progressive emaciation.

After the removal of the impacted plate and teeth she soon regained her health.

Paget speaks of a gentleman who for three months, unconsciously, carried at the base of the tongue and epiglottis, very closely fitted to all the surface on which it rested, a full set of lost teeth and gold palate-plate.

From the symptoms and history it was suspected that he had swallowed his set of false teeth, but, in order to prevent his worrying, he was never informed of this suspicion, and he never once suspected the causes of his symptoms.
Wrench mentions a case illustrative of the extent to which imagination may produce symptoms simulating those ordinarily caused by the swallowing of false teeth.

This man awoke one morning with his nose and throat full of blood, and noticed that his false teeth, which he seldom removed at night, were missing.