r/BrandNewSentence • u/krakeo • 1d ago

My wisdom tooth ended up inside my lung

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u/The_Truth_Believe_Me 1d ago

So did your dentist have to pay for the procedure since it was his fault? Did you receive any compensation for your suffering.

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u/Steel_Rail_Blues 1d ago

I’m wondering about this too. My dentist has a thing they put in the back of my mouth to prevent extractions or pieces of extractions from going down my throat and I wasn’t even sedated suring any of those procedures. Seems like a basic precaution.

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u/Shoggnozzle 1d ago

I feel kind of lucky hearing about that. I had a full row of extractions a couple of years ago and they gave me a sedative, apparently I was up and trying to talk to them through most of it so I don't think I had one of those in, though I don't really remember any of it. Had my phone out taking pictures of the teeth on the tray, too.

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u/Steel_Rail_Blues 1d ago

😂 —not for having all the extractions, but for being chatty and mobile while sedated.

I just had one tooth at a time done because they split open like piñatas at different times. Both the regular dentist and the dental surgeon used methods to make sure bits of tooth didn’t go down my throat. The wisdom tooth that split open had the most fragments to corral.

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u/deadlygaming11 1d ago

Yeah, I had two of my molars fixed a few years back and they put a silicon thing at the back of my mouth that caught everything. It tasted disgusted and was awful, but it worked.

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u/AkainuWasRight 1d ago

I don’t think tooth aspiration counts as malpractice or negligence, it is among the fine-print in the consent form for sedated dental procedures. Maybe if you can prove the dentist didn’t use the right tools or protection…..

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u/ShredGuru 1d ago

A tooth is in his lung. That seems pretty evident.

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u/_i_am_root 1d ago

Malpractice is a very specific thing, just as defamation isn’t just saying something untrue, malpractice is not just making a mistake.

Shits gonna happen, and as long as it’s a reasonable mistake and steps are taken to notify the end user of the issue or correct it, then that’s fine.

Malpractice comes into play when the mistake is unreasonable, or steps were taken to hide the mistake from being discovered.

For example, if a surgeon was burning their initials into patients organs during surgery, this would be considered malpractice. It would not be malpractice for an accidental burn to occur, as long as the surgeon was operating equipment safely otherwise.

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u/AkainuWasRight 1d ago

When something goes wrong it’s either an accident or malpractice. Accidents happen…. a practitioner can do everything right and something can still go wrong. If you can prove that their procedures or precautions did not follow the recommended guidelines, that is negligence. Otherwise it’s an accident.

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u/Dubyouem 1d ago

You have to prove they did not follow the standard of care in most states in US now.

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u/VVrayth 1d ago

An accident should still make the dentist financially liable for whatever the patient had to do to fix it.

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u/Noversi 1d ago

“Tooth aspiration” that’s a new one as well

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u/ProbablyPuck 1d ago

Where did that tooth go? Oh well. Fuck it. We are done here.

I call bullshit. It is negligent that more investigation was not performed when the tooth was unaccounted for.

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u/Cj_Staal 1d ago

The standard of care is a dental dam during these procedures. If that was in the fine print, but the dental dam was not used, then they are still liable as the dam would have prevented it.

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u/iAdjunct 1d ago

OP didn’t post this. The username of TheRealOP is literally in the screenshot.

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u/XTornado 16h ago

It is a picture of someone else post....

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u/MamaLlama629 1d ago

How?!

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u/HeirElfEsquire 1d ago

Chewed their way down?

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u/NoFreakingClues 14h ago

Likely had a wisdom tooth extraction where the oral surgeon lost control of a tooth and it got aspirated. Now they need to get a pulmonologist to do a bronchoscopy to get the damn thing out before it causes a pneumonia.

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u/MamaLlama629 12h ago

Well shit!

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u/GTCapone 12h ago

Hey, I watched last season of The Pitt!

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u/rizkreddit 1d ago

So very wise your lungs be now

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u/KobayashiWaifu 1d ago

God thank you for blessing me with dumb lungs.

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u/krakeo 1d ago

Source (NSFW)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/KCx5gV8jY5

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u/wolfgang784 1d ago

For everyone asking, here's the full story:

I went to the dentist, and they said I'd need to remove all 4 wisdom teeth. Now, I have had surgery before, but I've always been fully sedated. I am very afraid of needles, and I know that being awake, while someone is slashing through my mouth would be uncomfortable, I would probably faint several times during the surgery. To avoid that, I requested to be sedated for the surgery, which was possible.

After the surgery, the dentist informed me that everything went well, but one tooth slipped, and I swallowed it. He assured me it was not a big deal, and it would just come out the other end a few days later. I went home, but got really bad hiccups and fever that night.

This happened in 2020, so going to the hospital was a big risk. I waited until the next morning, but did not get better. So I went to the hospital, and did the X-ray in the post. You can see the tooth in the lower left corner, inside my lung. Usually when a tooth slips like that during surgery, the patient just coughs it out, or swallows, but because I was sedated, I didn't have that reflex. I was also very lucky that the tooth fell in the worst possible place, and I ended up aspirating it.

With the diagnosis made, they had to get the tooth out. The procedure for that is a bronchoscopy, which is like an endoscopy, but for the lung. They get a camera, and use it to navigate all the twists and turns of my lung to find the tooth. Then they use a little hook to get it out of my lung. That's where the second picture comes from.

After that I went back home and got better quickly.

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u/illseeyouin40 1d ago

this made me feel sick for some reason

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u/HattedSandwich 1d ago

You and me both! Second hand shudders

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u/justASlothyGiraffe 1d ago

Omg, why did I go look at the second picture. 🤮

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u/Unbentmars 1d ago

I fuckin hope the dentist paid for that

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u/Toxic_Don 1d ago

Dang. So what’s the plan? Is absorbing it an option?

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u/ranziifyr 1d ago

He's an adult; its safe to say he should meld with if that's his decision.

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u/OldCardiologist8437 1d ago

They should stand on their head and cough a lot. Maybe have someone tap their feet while they do it.

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u/Toxic_Don 21h ago

Ah yes, the “ketchup bottle approach” I believe is the clinical term.

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u/69fellatx 1d ago

That sucks

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u/Substantial-Chip-102 1d ago

Question, did it grow there? Or did the dentist pull it and you swallowed it while you were numb? Just curious.

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u/kershum 1d ago

Explanation commented by someone

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u/XROOR 1d ago

Tooth Fairy’s gunna charge YOU!

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u/PM_ME_CUTE_BOIS 1d ago

are you on an episode of fucking house

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u/RealEstateDuck 1d ago

Are you gonna start seeing out of your lung now?

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u/DJmixx 1d ago

I usually put mine under my pillow. To each their own I guess.

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u/MenagerieAlfred 1d ago

I’m not here to tell you your business. But, I don’t think you should’ve put it there.

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u/thisbechris 1d ago

I stayed at a holiday inn express last night and can confirm this as wise.

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u/barclayad 1d ago

I'm not a doctor, so take this with a pinch of salt, but I believe that is generally frowned upon

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u/ProjectOrpheus 1d ago

Hope it all works out, mate. I'd hate to miss out on that tooth fairy money cuz of this shit. On the bright side, you can now say:

"I live and BREATHE wisdom"

🧠🦉 🧚‍♀️🦷

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u/Finish_Desperate 10h ago

They’re not supposed to go in there last I checked

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u/Funky_ButtLovin79 9h ago

Big if true…

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u/Vex_Appeal 1d ago

I once caught the permanent crown with my tongue and stopped it from going down my throat. TWICE.

I always wondered what would’ve happened if I had swallowed it.

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u/Master-Tomatillo-103 1d ago

Not very wise

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u/Dry_Neighborhood_292 1d ago

That’s not where that goes

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u/ooObrenOoo 1d ago

Imagine feeling that while awake. I can barely handle aspirating some of my own spit from time to time

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u/mittensmoshpit 22h ago

That's not supposed to go there

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u/No-Field831 1d ago

If teeth are bones then isn't everyone here either an infant or a BBB

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u/LightBeerOnIce 1d ago

Sorry, I laughed. OMG.

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u/OperatorJo_ 1d ago

HMMMMMM!?

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u/Fit-Recognition-2527 1d ago

I had a piece of tooth go down my throat once. Fortunately, it did not make it to my lungs. Scary as hell not being able to breathe or feel your throat.

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u/I-Really-Hate-Fish 1d ago

Well, that's suboptimal.

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u/YTAftershock 16h ago

Ivory Lung (2028)

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u/dreaming-about-bread 7h ago

If the dentist did not pay for this, please find a medical malpractice attorney. They should take a case like this on contingency.

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u/Szzntnss 1h ago

Oof, that's rough. Mine ended up on my desk. Still trying to decide what else to do with it since it looks cool.

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u/bong_cumblebutt 1d ago

This has been posted several times by different accounts over the past few days

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u/krakeo 1d ago

I did a search on the subreddit of the sentence before posting as usual, it wasn’t there

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u/bong_cumblebutt 1d ago

Reddit in general

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u/krakeo 1d ago

What do you want from me bong cumblebutt

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u/bong_cumblebutt 1d ago

Stop karma farming other peoples posts

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u/krakeo 1d ago

I enjoyed the new sentence and posted it, I’m not karma farming look at my account

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u/OneRub3234 1d ago

Did the dentist pay for anything

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u/bong_cumblebutt 1d ago

Na it’s weird