A boy who recently got removed from the 232 unwanted teeth from his mouth.
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According to the report, the seventeen year old boy, Ashik Gavai, taken to the Mumbai’s JJ Hospital when he complaint of swelling in the left side of his jaw.
Later, the doctors at the hospital diagnosed him with complex odontoma.
When doctors opened his mouth for checkup, they found a large ‘marble like’ structure which they were forced to ‘chisel out’.
The head doctor from the hospital, Sunanda Dhivare, said “We operated on Monday and it took us almost seven hours”.
She added “We thought it may be a simple surgery but once we opened it there were multiple pearl-like teeth inside the jaw bone”.
However, after the successful operation, the removed teeth count was about 232 which was much more than the last maximum.
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