A 17-year-old boy in India underwent seven hours of dental surgery. Doctors extracted 232 teeth from his mouth, according to Indian media reports.
A village dweller, Ashik Gavai was suffering from a terrible swelling in his jaw for about 18 months. He travelled to Mumbai to get his condition diagnosed as his family was scared that it might turn out to be cancer, revealed Indian daily Mumbai Mirror.
Ashik was suffering from a "very rare" and a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. "It's a sort of benign tumour," one of the doctors treating him told Mumbai Mirror.
"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.
"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," the newspaper quoted the doctor as saying.
The surgery was carried out by two surgeons and two assistants. Ashik now has 28 regular teeth.
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232 teeth extracted from boy's mouth
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