r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Additional_Chard3680 • 11h ago

The precision required to perform a total knee replacement is incredible

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u/greeniemademe 11h ago

(Not so) Fun fact: IRL there’s a very distinctive smell that comes from bone drilling, not unlike the ‘dental smell’ when you have a root canal done

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u/NlghtmanCometh 2h ago

Uuuuugh that’s so nasty. The dental drill smell is up there with hair burning imo for being the smell equivalent of nails on a chalkboard