When older teenagers typically have pain around
their molars and need to get teeth extracted, it’s
because of wisdom teeth crowding other teeth.
Ashik Gavai, a 17-year-old boy from India, proved
to be a very unique case when oral surgeons
removed an astonishing 232 teeth from his mouth.
Around 18 months before his surgery, he began to
complain about pain and swelling in his right lower
jaw. When doctors in his village weren’t able to find
the cause of the problem, he was referred to J.J.
Hospital in Mumbai. Sunanda Dhiware could not
immediately recognize the cause of the odd growth
with regular tests, and decided to bring him into
surgery. When she cut into the gums, they noticed
dozens of tiny teeth of variable sizes.
Dhiware diagnosed Gavai with complex composite
odontoma, which is when enamel and dentin grow
abnormally, resulting in an excessive number of
tooth-like structures. The condition is rare and the
teeth are essentially benign tumors.
Over the course of the seven-hour-long surgery,
Dhiware, another surgeon, and two assistants
extracted 232 of the teeth. Dhiware told BBC that
the structure couldn’t be cut out using traditional
methods. This forced the to break it into pieces
using a hammer and chisel, which is an outdated
method that is now very rarely employed. After the
odontoma was cracked, the team removed
hundreds of small teeth ranging in size from a
mustard seed to a marble. The dentists also
removed the molar that was affected by the
condition, though it was removed with traditional
methods.
Dhiware told IBTimes that as far as she knows, the
greatest amount of teeth ever extracted because of
this condition was 37, but she needs to do more
research in the literature before she comments on
whether this could be a world record. However, she
told BBC Gavai’s condition was unlike anything
she had seen in 30 years of dentistry, and she was
"thrilled to get such an exciting case.”
Following the surgery, Gavai was left with 28 teeth;
a normal amount of teeth for an adult. Dhiware did
not comment about Gavai’s prognosis , which is
dependent upon early diagnosis and management.




www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/doctors-india-remove-232-teeth-mouth-teenage-boy

...the pain!

Eeewwwww!!!

firestar:

...the pain!

d pain alone kan kill persn o

bt seriously i feel for d guy o, 232 men dats much. i had one removed frm mine n d process and d pain alone na die ooooooo not to talk of dis guy..no wonda dey said wateva ur goin tru in life now just knw dat somone else is going tru it bt 3times d size of urss........

tank God fr life o

Wow ouch

suarez's kid brother. But seriously this is a great testimony its not easy to go through such pain and still live

You need anything? [size=24pt]JUST GO TO INDIA...![/size]

Nasty-looking teeth...the plural word for this should be teeths....**I close tread and continue with ma brkfast less I throw up...