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India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by Onyenna(m): 1:02pm On Aug 19, 2014
Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from
the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour
operation.


Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ
Hospital's dental department, told the BBC.
The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and
travelled to the city from his village after local
doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.
Doctors have described his condition as "very rare"
and "a world record".
"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex
composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.
The teenager had to endure seven hours of medics
pulling teeth from his mouth. It was all smiles from the medical team after the operation..
"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,"
she added.
The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two
surgeons and two assistants. The team was led by Dr. Vandana Thorawade who heads the hospital's ENT(ear, nose and throat) department. Ashik now has 28 teeth.
Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware
said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".
"According to medical literature available on the
condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a
maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the
tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour
was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."
Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the
Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.
"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I
brought him to Mumbai," he said.



BBC

Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by Onyenna(m): 1:05pm On Aug 19, 2014
[size=28pt]OGBE-EZE![/size]

Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by whirlwind7(m): 1:17pm On Aug 19, 2014
If those teeth were visible prior to getting extracted, I'm pretty sure the boy would have sparked another worship frenzy. Indians are always on the look out for new gods to worship.

The teeth god in this case! grin
Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by ElFenomeno1: 1:18pm On Aug 19, 2014
GTFOH!!!!

**Pukes violently
Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by Onyenna(m): 9:04pm On Aug 19, 2014
whirlwind7: If those teeth were visible prior to getting extracted, I'm pretty sure the boy would have sparked another worship frenzy. Indians are always on the look out for new gods to worship.

The teeth god in this case! grin

grin grin grin grin grin

Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by manitobor(m): 7:56am On Aug 20, 2014
Hope he doesn't grow a new set.

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Re: India Doctors Remove 232 Teeth From Boy's Mouth by Onyenna(m): 9:33am On Aug 21, 2014
manitobor: Hope he doesn't grow a new set.
that's also a probability.....but I pray it doesn't happen.....

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