Posted on 11/06/2007 6:44:08 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Dentist's drill bit lodged in patient's sinus cavity
By SUE WEIBEZAHL PORTER
The (Syracuse, N.Y.) Post-Standard
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A dentist who was dancing to the song "Car Wash" while extracting a patient's tooth lost an inch-long drill bit, which punctured the patient's sinus cavity and came to rest by her eye socket, according to the woman's lawsuit.
Brandy Fanning, 31, underwent surgery at a hospital after the dentist, Dr. George Trusty, was unable to retrieve the bit, said Fanning's lawyer, Joseph Cote III. He said Fanning spent three days at the hospital, with a steady drip of intravenous morphine.
Fanning had gone to the emergency dental clinic at Syracuse Community Health Center in October 2004 after pain in a molar worsened. Trusty gave her novocaine and while he was drilling to break the molar into quadrants before the extraction, Fanning heard a snap.
During the procedure, the lawsuit said, Trusty was "performing rhythmical steps and movements to the song 'Car Wash,' " which was on the radio in the dental suite.
Trusty then used a metal hook to try to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone, the lawsuit says.
Trusty's efforts to remove the bit gouged and scraped the inside of Fanning's sinus cavity and widened the hole where the bit entered, Cote said.
When Fanning asked what was happening, Trusty told her it wasn't a big deal and that she'd likely sneeze the drill bit out, she said.
She expressed alarm and he offered to call an oral surgeon who was a friend and get her an appointment for two days later, Fanning said. Trusty made the call in front of Fanning.
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Dancing to "Car Wash"...that's just adding insult to injury!
As a fat man, I can say that I am definitely not a marathon man. But I understand the pain.
Been there, done that.
Ping-a-ling
Trusty? Yeeeeh - NO!
Yeesh!
Thank God my dentist plays smooth jazz
Either of you gentlemen involved?
Dr. Trusty couldn’t help it. He had “happy feet.”
Yeah...happy feet and shakey hands!
Funny thing happened to me when I went to the disco.
I got onto the dance floor and ended up getting a root canal.
Bada bum!
you might want to see this
Tomorrow’s News today:
Patient’s Foot Lodged in Dancing Dentist’s Rear...........Developing.....
Brandy is going to use it up!
And most deservedly so.
Trusty, you be one of them thar 'morans'.
Perhaps you should be "workin' at the car wash" instead of dentistry.
Displaying ignorance and arrogance at the car wash is not noticed near as much as driving a drill bit into a patient's sinus cavity is.
What do you think, Trusty?
That’s not what I call Dentist Music.
LOL
Having to read Newsweek in the waiting room is misery enough to justify calling John Edwards.
aw man!
ping
I’ll try to keep that joke in mind while I’m getting my root canal procedure done tomorrow morning.
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