A man had to be rushed to the hospital after he inhaled a drill bit during a routine dental procedure. 

Tom Jozsi, 60, from Illinois, was getting a tooth filled when he swallowed an inch-long drill bit. 

“I was at the dentist getting a tooth filled, and then next thing I know I was told I swallowed this tool,"  Jozsi told  WISN12 News. 

“I didn't really even feel it going down. All I felt was a cough. When they did the CT scan they realised ‘you didn't swallow it, you inhaled it',” he added. 

He was later taken to the Aurora Medical Center in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where he was treated by pulmonary expert Dr. Abdul Alraiyes. The doctor told the outlet that he initially tried to remove the drill bit with a normal scope, but it was too deep in the lung.

"When I saw the cat scan, and where that object is sitting, it was really far down on the right lower lobe of the lung," Alraiyes said. 

It looked like they would have to operate and take part of Jozsi’s lung, but  Alraiyes and his team decide to use a catheter typically used "for early detection of cancer, especially lung cancer," the pulmonologist said. 

Thanks to the "size of the catheter," Alraiyes said, he and his team were able to go into Jozsi's lung and remove the drill bit safely, without causing any damage or irritation. 

The video shared by WISN showed the tool going down Jozsi’s airways and successfully pulling out the drill bit, which had been in the man’s lung for about four days.  

"I was never so happy as when I opened my eyes, and I saw him with a smile under that mask shaking a little plastic container with the tool in it," Jozsi said.  

Jozsi said he now keeps the tool on a shelf at home.  

In an unrelated incident, doctors surgically removed an entire glass tumbler from a 55-year-old man's colon who was suffering from acute constipation and abdominal pain. The surgery was done by a team of doctors in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, in February. 

The doctors from the hospital in the Madipur locality of town were left curious as to how the entire glass tumbler made its way into the patient's alimentary canal.   

Dr Makhdulul Haq, who headed a team of surgeons, said the patient hailed from Mahua in the adjoining Vaishali district and his ultrasound and X-ray reports had shown that something was seriously amiss with his intestines.

Haq said, “When we inquired, the patient said he swallowed the tumbler while having tea. That is, however, not a convincing explanation. The food pipe of a human being is too narrow for the object."

He said that he made an attempt to pull the glass out of the rectum through an endoscopic procedure "but that did not work out. So we had to cut open his abdomen and extract the tumbler after making an incision in his intestinal wall," said Dr Haq.  

The patient is recovering now and that will likely take time since after the surgery the colon has been sutured and a fistular opening has been created through which he can pass stool.  

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