Patient swallows Swedish dentist's drill bit
Published: 19 Jan 11 15:36 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/31528/20110119/
What was supposed to be a routine dental cleaning spiraled out of control for a patient in central Sweden when the end of the dentist's tool came loose.
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In the middle of the procedure, however, the dentist's drill bit came loose and before the dentist or attending hygienist could react, the patient had swallowed the end of the dental tool.
Although showing no signs of discomfort or injury as a result of the dental malfunction, the patient was nevertheless admitted to the emergency room in nearby Västerås for precautionary x-rays.
The dentist learned the following day that the drill bit had ended up in the patient's stomach and that the patient felt fine.
The patient added that the misplaced dental tool was expected to come out "the natural way," according to a statement from the Västmanland county council.
Despite the patient's lack of complications following the mishap, the incident, which occurred in October 2010, has been reported to the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) under Sweden's Lex Maria laws, the informal name used to refer to regulations governing the reporting of injuries or incidents in the Swedish health care system.
The patient's October surprise at the dental office isn't the first time someone has left a Swedish dentist office with a foreign object lodged in his or her digestive tract.
Back in January 2009, county health authorities in Kalmar in southern Sweden filed a report a Lex Maria report about a dental drill bit which flew off during a cleaning and was believed to have ended up in the patient's stomach.
However, the missing dental tool failed to show up on x-rays following taken after the incident.
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/sarcasm off
It is almost impossible now to register with a dental surgeon on the National Health Service in the UK. In private practice in the UK expect to pay out around 5GBP per minute. There is a growing dependency on recruiting dentists from the Eastern Euro states.
For major treatment it is cheaper to fly to and stay in Poland, where training standards are high, and charges are low.
http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/one-in-five-italian-dentists-is-unqualified/
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"How fortunate for the patient that is wasn't a Russian or Austrian dentist's drill bit! "
Speaking from experience?!
At least in Moscow (and I am speaking from experience here), they use a protective plastic cover over your mouth. So, you would not have to swallow tools or anything else for that matter...
It's kind of funny to see an Englishman attempt dentistry jokes though...
/ sarcasm on
terrible terrible dental care in national systems.
There's no need to get defensive. I just grabbed a couple country names at random to poke some fun at the silly headline implication that the experience is somehow different depending on nationality .
The burrs' ( which is two pieces welded together) carbide "tip" pops off and
lands in the mouth and quickly sucked up by the assistant and her suction. Patients are never the wiser, and no danger usually if swallowed...
Though, if inhaled and trapped in a lung.....thats another story!!!