Dental Drill, Dropped During UK Train Driver's Surgery, Remains Inside His Body For 9 Weeks

Various unusual incidents go viral on the internet every day. Recently, a dentist’s drill tip remained in the patient’s stomach for 9 weeks.

According to reports, the patient’s name is Scott Pearson. He is 34 years old and a resident of Britain. He shared that he felt something enter his windpipe while getting a dental filling replaced. He tried to cough it out, but the 2 cm drill had already entered his oesophagus and did not come out of his body.

He went to the hospital. The staff reportedly said that it would come out naturally, but his doctor ordered him to go to the accident and emergency department. An X-ray was done. The report showed the drill had gone into his digestive system, not his lungs. The doctors then told him not to panic, as it was now safe.

But Scott, who was 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 that 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. As per further reports, he then underwent an emergency appendectomy in December 2022. After this, Scott shared in a media interaction that he had to check every bowel movement and was very worried that it was sharp and would pierce my intestine, so he didn’t know whether he should drive a train full of people or not. Because applying too much force puts pressure on his stomach.

Earlier, a similar incident went viral. According to a report, a 3 cm-long dental drill bit was removed from a female patient’s right lung after it had accidentally fallen into the mouth of the 60-year-old during dental implant surgery.

Reports suggest the drill bit became loose and fell into the woman’s mouth. Although she was asked to cough, the patient swallowed the instrument reflexively. An immediate X-ray of the patient’s chest revealed that the drill bit had moved into her right lung. Later, it was removed using a bronchoscope.