A dental drilling tool enters a patient's lung in a strange way

Maintenance worker Tom Josie, 60, was treating his teeth when he accidentally inhaled a dental drill during a sudden cough.

The man told WISN-TV that he was filling his teeth, when the doctor told him he apparently had "swallowed a drill feather" and added, "It's hard to imagine the sensation I felt." I didn't really feel it had gone in.

All I felt was coughing.

When they did the CT scan, they knew what had happened, and they told me, 'You didn't swallow it.

You inhaled it," according to the "Indy100" website.

A CT scan showed that the drill bit was an inch deep in the man's lung, in turn, according to Dr. Abdul Rais, of Aurora Medical Center-Kenosha in Wisconsin, "that the tool was so deep in the lung that surgery was required to remove it."

It also turns out that, however, conventional tools will not be able to access it, which means the need to "remove part of Josie's lung."

But instead, the medical team had another plan. They decided to use a small robotic bronchoscope that is usually used to detect early stages of cancer in the lung, and thanks to the device, Dr. Rice was able to carefully remove the drill bit without damaging or needing to remove part of the lung.

After the surgery, the man was pleased with its success. "I opened my eyes and found the doctor smiling from behind his mask as he was shaking a small plastic bowl with the tool in it."

Josie kept that drill bit on a shelf in his house as a "souvenir".

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