I used cold steel to treat the infection (a scalpel, or, in this case a cautery) an antibiotics.
That's a temperature probe in the right nostril. Can't tell about the septum from this view.
Yeah, I see stuff like this all the time. A few times a week.
This was a postoperative infection. When the other doctor took the pt's wisdom teeth out bacteria got in the tissue, pt's immunse system couldn't overcome them, and an abscess formed.