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Foreign-body ingestion is a common event most often seen in children from 6 months to 6 years of age. In adults, foreign bodies are usually ingested accidentally together with food. The esophagus is the most common site for acute foreign body or food impaction in the gastrointestinal tract and 80% to 90% of swallowed objects that reach the stomach will eventually pass without intervention. We report a case of 56 years old woman who presented with difficulty swallowing (dysphagia) and odynophagia after ingested artificial denture accidentally during a meal for 3 hours. There was no respiratory distress, bleeding, chest pain or fever. There was pooling saliva in bilateral pyriform sinuses in indirect laryngoscopy. X ray neck showed artificial denture at the level of C7 vertebra. The patient was admitted for emergency rigid esophagoscopic and removal of foreign body. The artificial denture was removed successfully with minimal bleeding. No complication afterward.