You must have heard many jokes about scissors or other tools being left in the patient’s stomach during an operation, but such incidents happen in real life too. But in a country like Britain, a very strange incident of this kind happened in which a father told how a dentist put a drill tip in his throat. But the surprising thing was that it remained in his body for nine weeks and during this time he was also worried that the small thing would not make a hole in his body from inside.
Scott Pearson, 34, felt something enter his windpipe while he was getting a dental filling replaced. He tried to cough it out, but the 2cm attachment had already entered his oesophagus and did not come out of his body. This made Scott very worried.
The staff reportedly said it would come out naturally, but her doctor ordered her to go to the accident and emergency department. An X-ray showed it had gone into her digestive system, not her lungs. The doctors then told her not to panic as it was now safe.
The dentist’s drill tip remained in the patient’s stomach for 9 weeks. (Symbolic picture: Canva)
But Scott, a train driver from Sheffield, was not put to rest. He feared it had punctured his internal organs and insisted on having a scan when it was not detected after several days. He said doctors at Chesterfield Royal Hospital finally carried out a scan nine weeks after he visited the dentist.
As he had suspected, tests revealed it was stuck in his appendix. The Sun According to, he then underwent an emergency appendectomy in December 2022. “I had to check every bowel movement,” the father of two said. “I was worried that it was sharp and would pierce my intestine, so I didn’t know whether I should drive a train full of people or not. Because applying too much force puts pressure on the stomach.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 21, 2024, 08:51 IST