Posted on 04/20/2022 2:47:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Doctors at Aurora Medical Center-Kenosha used rare medical procedure to remove bit
What began as a routine dental visit landed an Illinois man in a Kenosha hospital after he inhaled the dentist's drill bit.
A rare medical procedure was performed to remove the sharp metal object lodged in the patient's lung.
Advertisement The CT scan tells the shocking story.
An inch-long dental drill bit was lodged deep in Tom Jozsi's lung.
"How did this happen?" WISN 12's Kent Wainscott asked him.
"Well, I don't know. I was at the dentist getting a tooth filled, and then next thing I know I was told I swallowed this tool," Jozsi said. "I didn't really even feel it going down. All I felt was a cough. When they did the CT scan they realized, you didn't swallow it. You inhaled it."
Doctors believe that inhaling just before he coughed sent the metal object deep into the 60-year-old maintenance worker's airways.
It went so deep, pulmonary expert Dr. Abdul Alraiyes said, that normal scopes couldn't reach it.
"When I saw the cat scan, and where that object is sitting, it was really far down on the right lower lobe of the lung," Alraiyes said.
"What happens if he can't get it out? And the answer really was, part of my lung was going to have to get removed," Jozsi said.
That's when Alraiyes and the Aurora Medical Center-Kenosha team decided to try a newer device — one not designed for removing foreign objects.
"It's more for early detection of cancer, especially lung cancer," Alraiyes said.
"But you knew you could use it for this?" Wainscott asked.
"Exactly right. The reason is this. The size of this catheter," Alraiyes said.
Video of the scan shows the medical team was able to navigate the narrow airways, reach the drill piece and pull it out without any harm to the patient.
"I was never so happy as when I opened my eyes, and I saw him with a smile under that mask shaking a little plastic container with the tool in it," Jozsi said.
Joszki said he now keeps the tool on a shelf at home.
Alraiyes told WISN 12 he has heard from colleagues in Michigan and Ohio who report seeing cases nearly identical to this.
This almost happen to me. I’m numb and the drill bit falls out in my mouth.
Dentist is negligent 🤪
I know I do.
Anesthesia worked almost too well.
Dental drill was slide in but the chuck/collar not tightened so it just fell out.
Was his last name Hoover?
A bit too much for me.
Wait until he gets the hospital bill.
You read stories like this and you don’t even see how it’s possible. I think I read on here a couple months ago about a woman who had a glass jar in her bladder. Now this. How does one inhale a 1” piece of metal and not know? I know I inhale the slightest particle of food and I’m hacking and coughing for a 1/2 hour trying to expel it. And how does it get down inside a lobe. I would think the bronchial tubes would be too small to pass it.
We see this every once in a while, maybe once every other year.
Some dentists are far rougher on equipment than others, and some keep equipment in better condition than others. Dental drills are rather high maintenance, understandable since those burs spin 300-400 thousand RPM.
I can loan you guys my telescoping magnetic end bolt picker upper I got from Harbor Freight...
I stay as far away from dentists as possible.
You won’t see Bill Clinton’s name about it happening to him. He doesn’t inhale. Just saying.
British?
Dont discuss politics with either your cook, surgeon, or dentist!
Ya, dental dams were used for a reason.
“Dentist is negligent 🤪”
Were you there? Do you know what happened? Sometimes crap happens. Perhaps the bit fell out due to an unforeseen failure of the drill holder? Or it had a defect in it that wasn’t noticeable? Or maybe the dentist really was negligent, but to simply state that as fact with nothing to go on is exactly why medical care cots so damn much - everyone sues at the drop of a hat.
Hahaha!
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