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Foreign bodies in the body are commonly occured by accident, and in most cases they should be removed without delay. But the presence of foreign body is often overlooked due to patient’s ignorance or lack of physician’s eagerness in examination that lead to prolonged sojourns for consequential months or years of needless illness and suffering.

Recently, we have experienced a case of glass foreign body which was lodged in the tonsillar fossa. The patient was 19-year-old male who had history of removal of foreign body at anterior neck area 10 years ago. So, we report on this case with a brief review of literatures.