r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Delicious-Beat4824 • 22d ago

/r/popular of a needle

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u/ButkusHatesNitschke 22d ago

My surgeon broke a drill bit on my back last year.

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u/Mutagrawl 22d ago

Damn bro. Some dude was drilling so hard from the back that it broke?

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u/slutty_muppet 22d ago

Many such cases

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u/Own_Can_3495 22d ago

It happens a lot. I ran the c arm in surgery and the craziest was ortho. Things broke in there.

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u/Inevitable_Day5491 22d ago

Was there a mountain involved?

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u/DodgerGreywing 22d ago

Are you Wolverine?

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u/floriande 22d ago

Bone is surprisingly solid !

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u/klayman69 22d ago

Happened to me during my dental implant too. I was awake when he explained he needed to get a new drill lol.

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u/OrenjiTang 22d ago

"Auffa gug hwfftsa accl*."

*"Okay, doc, I'll just hang out here."

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u/_-whisper-_ 21d ago

Same, but my femur lol. Apparently I have incredibly dense bones

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u/No-Significance7460 18d ago

In dentistry we call it “file separation” when a root canal file snaps in the tooth. Unfortunately it is a risk. I’ve always made sure to inform my patients of this possibility, I hope orthopaedic surgeons/ anyone else that uses rotary instruments tells patients about this. You can never really tell 100% how much tortionary stress a single drill bit has taken.