232 Teeth Extracted From Boy's Mouth[See Photos]

After a 7-hour operation, doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from a 17-year-old boy Ashik Gavai‘s mouth.

He was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, the head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department Dr Sunanda Dhiware tells the BBC.

Ashik had been suffering for a year and 6 months, and travelled to the city from his village after local doctors could not identify the cause of the problem.

His father was worried that it was cancer, so he brought him to the city.
The doctors who helped extract the teeth, called his condition “very rare” and a “world “record”.

Dr Dhiware told reporters that it was a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It’s a sort of benign tumour.

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