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Human Bites Overview
Human bites can be either quite serious or relatively harmless. It is important to know which ones to worry about. Human bites consist of a range of injuries. They include intentionally inflicted bites but also any injury caused by coming in contact with the teeth. For example, if 2 children collide and the tooth of one causes a cut on the other, this is classified as a human bite.
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Human bite wounds are notoriously deceptive and are perhaps the most potentially disastrous type of bite wound because of the abundant pathogenic oral flora found in humans.
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