Anterior chest wall abscess--an unusual complication of an odontogenic infection.

INTRODUCTION

A majority of odontogenic infections can be successfully managed with routine incision and drainage and empirical antibiotics. Sometimes an odontogenic infection may spread to contiguous spaces and descend along the neck causing significant morbidity and rarely even mortality.

CASE REPORT: We report a case of an odontogenic infection which had an unusual spread to the anterior chest wall.