No, the Dr. was not a surgeon.  When I saw that she was getting close to the muscle and had her view of it covered up I stopped the operation.  Things were not otherwise too kosher.  For example there was a cat on the table during her probing. The worm is still there, I'm still trying to keep ahead of the little ones it produces.  Over the years these things have eaten the insides of my teeth!  The worms are no longer in there and the hollowed out teeth are breaking left and right!  I went without dental insurance for many years, when I finally got some I only had time to get one tooth pulled before losing that job.  I did get one of those panoramic xrays.  On it you could see lines, calcified immune responses, running from the back of my neck to the roots of the teeth.  I guess most dentists, including one that's a member here, think that's normal clutter!  Maybe it is for people whose teeth are going bad.  The most significant thing that has happened over the last year is that I had two little mole-like things come up on my neck, right where mom pulled the first ticks off when I was but four yrs old!  I'm now 62!  I scratched them off several times and they came back several times, but that cycle finally stopped and they are gone.  My neck is getting much, much better!  I can actually feel the base of my skull and lots of hardened stuff has gone away.  One day I moved a certain way and got a crack out of T1 that took a lot of tilt to the left that my head had for a very long time.  There's still some deep down hardened stuff in my neck, but my immune system is working on it.  I had one of those mole like things come out on my nose too!  I remember getting bit by a mosquito while my nose was stitched up from a car wreck, back in the 80s.  I guess that sucker put something in me too!  That's the state of things now!  Getting better, yet getting older!  Can't beat Chronos!