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PCIntern

(28,387 posts) Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:11 PM Apr 2021

Omg I used the wrong instrument:

I meant to drill out a small cavity with my handpiece but I used my extraction forcep and removed the tooth instead!!! I’m mortified! I have no idea how it happened!!!

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Omg I used the wrong instrument: (Original Post) PCIntern Apr 2021 OP

Please see a Dentist ASAP.... JoeOtterbein Apr 2021 #1

Psst. I believe he is a dentist. Solomon Apr 2021 #2

I see what you did there, Doc. MontanaMama Apr 2021 #3

This message was self-deleted by its author barbtries Apr 2021 #4

Honest mistake Rorey Apr 2021 #5

Yeah well a forcep is made of metal as is a handpiece PCIntern Apr 2021 #18

Should have used the taser jpak Apr 2021 #6

my father used to call my mother a limey barbtries Apr 2021 #7

"Limey" comes from limes in the diet of sailors FBaggins Apr 2021 #10

We laugh at a joke 3 times... keithbvadu2 Apr 2021 #11

Oh, PC. I keep telling you! The hand piece is on the right, the forceps on the left of the tray. niyad Apr 2021 #8

That's not YOUR mask, doc dweller Apr 2021 #9

Perfectly understandable.. Permanut Apr 2021 #12

... SamKnause Apr 2021 #13

Whoosh!! - The sound of this going over my head. Thanks for the explanation. RussellCattle Apr 2021 #14

Had to read this twice tiredtoo Apr 2021 #15

Very clever analogy! Duppers Apr 2021 #16

DUzy!!! WheelWalker Apr 2021 #17

JoeOtterbein

(7,869 posts)

1. Please see a Dentist ASAP....

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:14 PM

Apr 2021

...the can be expensive, but their work is well worth it!

Solomon

(12,644 posts)

2. Psst. I believe he is a dentist.

Reply to JoeOtterbein (Reply #1)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:16 PM

Apr 2021

He's making a point about the shooting of Duante Wright.

MontanaMama

(24,722 posts)

3. I see what you did there, Doc.

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:20 PM

Apr 2021

It’s just that simple isn’t it?

Response to PCIntern (Original post)

barbtries This message was self-deleted by its author.

Rorey

(8,514 posts)

5. Honest mistake

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:25 PM

Apr 2021

Just say it was an accident and call it good.

PCIntern

(28,387 posts)

18. Yeah well a forcep is made of metal as is a handpiece

Reply to Rorey (Reply #5)

Tue Apr 13, 2021, 07:15 AM

Apr 2021

“.... and in all this excitement I lost track myself...”

Life ain’t the movies.

jpak

(41,780 posts)

6. Should have used the taser

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:25 PM

Apr 2021

Oops

barbtries

(31,311 posts)

7. my father used to call my mother a limey

Reply to PCIntern (Original post)

Mon Apr 12, 2021, 11:25 PM

Apr 2021

because according to him, if you told her a joke on Monday she would laugh at it on Wednesday. Her father's family was from England but I don't really get why that characteristic (which appears to be genetic) would be associated with British sailors.