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