> What do you do when a piece of a dentist drill goes down your airway and gets stuck in your lung?
What do you do when a piece of a dentist drill goes down your airway and gets stuck in your lung?
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You might not like the sound of the dentist's drill. Many people don't, but one Gulf Coast man has a whole different reason to not like the drill, that goes way beyond the way it sounds.
And it was technology that quickly helped him. It was supposed to be a simple trip to the dentist for 77-year-old J. Miller. The retired Biloxi attorney needed a crown fixed in April, but during the procedure, a piece of the drill flew down his throat.
“I talked about it with my dentist, and we decided the best thing to do would, just go home, and forget about it,” J.W. Miller said by phone.
But was it in his digestive tract, or airways. Hours later, the dentist had J. meet him at the Biloxi Hospital E.R. The CAT scan confirmed it had gone down the airways and was lodged in the very bottom of his right lung.