This Dentist Should Be Workin' At The Carwash

[RonJonSurfer]

Dentist Danced While Drilling, Suit Says

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) - A dentist was dancing to a song on the radio while drilling on a woman's tooth, and she wound up in the hospital when the drill bit snapped off and lodged near her eye, a lawsuit alleges.

Brandy Fanning, 31, said she had to undergo emergency surgery and spent three days in the hospital because of the October 2004 mishap.

The federal lawsuit filed last month against Dr. George Trusty seeks $600,000 for her medical expenses, pain and suffering.

Trusty, 57, a dentist at Syracuse Community Health Center, declined to comment, as did Dr. Ruben Cowart, the center's president and CEO.

Fanning said she went to the center's emergency dental clinic after pain in a left molar started getting worse. With a root canal ruled out as an option, Trusty gave her some Novocain and began drilling to break up the tooth before extracting it, she said.

As Trusty drilled, he was "performing rhythmical steps and movements to the song `Car Wash,'" which was on the radio, according to the lawsuit. Then, Fanning heard a snap.

Trusty tried to use a metal hook to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone near her eye socket, the lawsuit alleged.

After first minimizing the problem, Trusty talked to an oral surgeon to set up an appointment - and then told Fanning she needed to get to an emergency room immediately, according to the lawsuit.

She claimed he had initially told she would likely sneeze the drill bit out, but doctors said later that if she really had sneezed, the drill bit could have blinded her left eye.

Fanning said she sued because Trusty failed on a promise to pay her medical bills. She said she still suffers facial swelling, nerve damage and chronic infections.

The suit is in federal court because the health center operates under federal law.

Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved.

[Levis]

And that's what Halloween is about.

[Tenacious_Peaches]

"Trusty tried to use a metal hook to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone near her eye socket, the lawsuit alleged."

I just fainted.

[Levis]

Why.... WHY is his name Dr. Trusty?

[blue_n_white]

Life rule #1:Never go to doctors or lawyers named Trusty.

[TheLizard]

When I was young and just a bad little kid,

My momma noticed funny things I did.

Like shootin' puppies with a BB-Gun.

I'd poison guppies, and when I was done,

I'd find a pussy-cat and bash in it's head.

That's when my momma said...

(What did she say?)

She said my boy I think someday

You'll find a way

To make your natural tendencies pay...

You'll be a dentist.

You have a talent for causing things pain!

Son, be a dentist.

People will pay you to be inhumane!

You're temperment's wrong for the priesthood,

And teaching would suit you still less.

Son, be a dentist.

You'll be a success.

"Here he is folks, the leader of the plaque."

"Watch him suck up that gas. Oh My God!"

"He's a dentist and he'll never ever be any good."

"Who wants their teeth done by the Marqui DeSade?"

"Oh, that hurts! Wait! I'm not numb!"

"Eh, Shut Up! Open Wide! Here I Come!"

I am your dentist.

And I enjoy the career that I picked.

I'm your dentist.

And I get off on the pain I inflict!

I thrill when I drill a bicuspid.

It's swell, though then tell me I'm mal-adjusted.

And though it may cause my patients distress.

Somewhere...Somewhere in heaven above me...

I know...I know that my momma's proud of me.

"Oh, Momma..."

'Cause I'm a dentist...

And a success!

"Say ahh..."

"Say AHhhh..."

"Say AAARRRHHHH!!!"

"Now Spit

[MarcM]

My favorite part of LS of H!

[TheLizard]

Mine too. It makes me wish Steve Martin would be in funny/good movies again.