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Mumbai surgeons removed 17-year-old Ashik Gavai 232 teeth, reports BBC News. Doctors found that the boy is suffering from complex odontoma – a congenital tooth defect in which the mouth extra hard tissue is formed. Parents went to the hospital with complaints of a tumor on the right side of the lower jaw of a young man. Operation it took almost seven hours from the dentists, after it the patient 28 teeth left.
Doctors say they first decided that the operation would be simple, but when they looked into the patient’s mouth, they saw many teeth resembling by the look of pearls. After several hours of surgery, doctors discovered a large tooth, which they also tried to pull out, but this failed. IN as a result, it was decided to grind the tooth with a drill, and the remaining remove fragments.
The operation involved two surgeons and two assistants. Dentists managed to maintain the structure of the jaw of a teenager, therefore his appearance remained the same.
“According to the medical literature, the maximum number of teeth, deleted during a similar operation, until today amounted to 37, “said Sunanda Dhiware, chapter the dental department that performed the operation.
A teenager’s family living in a small village was worried the fact that the tumor may be malignant. Teenager suffered last year and a half from pains, but local doctors couldn’t find their cause. Then the boy’s parents decided to take him for treatment in the city.
