Dentist's drill bit left in head for 11 months

Donna Delgado of Tampa, Florida just wasn't healing properly after dental surgery.

There was too much bleeding, too much pain. Her head hurt. She was dizzy. She had nosebleeds and sinus infections.

And with good reason, according to her lawsuit: The surgeon left an inch-long piece of steel in the wound.



Lodged in Delgado's right maxillary sinus, the drill bit burr made the 35-year-old woman miserable for nearly a year as she held down a job and cared for her children, her lawyer said.

She wound up in a hospital, where the medical staff detected the foreign object. She was referred to another hospital for surgery.

"The poor thing," said the lawyer, Anthony Martino. "You don't know how horrible it's been for her."

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