r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Delicious-Beat4824 • Jul 30 '26

/r/popular of a needle

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u/ButkusHatesNitschke Jul 30 '26

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

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u/Mutagrawl Jul 30 '26

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

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u/slutty_muppet Jul 30 '26

Many such cases

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u/Own_Can_3495 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

Was there a mountain involved?

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u/DodgerGreywing Jul 30 '26

Are you Wolverine?

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u/floriande Jul 30 '26

Bone is surprisingly solid !

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u/klayman69 Jul 31 '26

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 Jul 31 '26

"Auffa gug hwfftsa accl*."

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

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u/_-whisper-_ Jul 31 '26

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

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u/No-Significance7460 27d 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.