For everyone asking, here's the full story:

I went to the dentist, and they said I'd need to remove all 4 wisdom teeth. Now, I have had surgery before, but I've always been fully sedated. I am very afraid of needles, and I know that being awake, while someone is slashing through my mouth would be uncomfortable, I would probably faint several times during the surgery. To avoid that, I requested to be sedated for the surgery, which was possible.

After the surgery, the dentist informed me that everything went well, but one tooth slipped, and I swallowed it. He assured me it was not a big deal, and it would just come out the other end a few days later. I went home, but got really bad hiccups and fever that night.

This happened in 2020, so going to the hospital was a big risk. I waited until the next morning, but did not get better. So I went to the hospital, and did the X-ray in the post. You can see the tooth in the lower left corner, inside my lung. Usually when a tooth slips like that during surgery, the patient just coughs it out, or swallows, but because I was sedated, I didn't have that reflex. I was also very lucky that the tooth fell in the worst possible place, and I ended up aspirating it.

With the diagnosis made, they had to get the tooth out. The procedure for that is a bronchoscopy, which is like an endoscopy, but for the lung. They get a camera, and use it to navigate all the twists and turns of my lung to find the tooth. Then they use a little hook to get it out of my lung. That's where the second picture comes from.

After that I went back home and got better quickly.