Hopefully this is not Dave NZ's doctor

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A New Zealand Health and Disability Commission report says doctors lost an elderly man's false teeth during surgery but found them four days later - stuck down his throat,
However, the commission found doctors had taken all due care during the surgery.
The report says the man entered hospital for back surgery in February 2005 and his upper denture, which doctors noticed was loose, was removed before the operation.
Somehow, the false teeth got back into his mouth, though no one admitted putting them there and a nurse says there was no way the heavily sedated man could have put them back himself.
Experts reviewing the case said a serious underlying neurological condition allowed the man to have his teeth stuck down his throat without gagging reflexively, as would have happened with a normal person.
The report noted the elderly patient recovered fully but died within a couple of years from respiratory illness.
After the operation, the patient said he was in extreme pain and was given painkillers.
The report says nurses noticed the elderly man spoke with a particularly husky voice and couldn't eat more than a couple of spoons of milky porridge at a time.
On the second day after the operation doctors said his voice was down to a whisper and ordered chest X-rays. They found evidence of congestive heart failure.
The man was moved into his own room after suffering coughing fits.
His condition deteriorated as his coughing continued, his blood oxygen level plummeted and, while he was being washed, the 81-year-old stopped breathing, the report said.
Doctors put a laryngoscope down the man's throat and found his missing denture plate.
They removed the teeth, resuscitated him and transferred him to a public hospital, the report said.
The names of all those involved were withheld by the commission.