Photos: In a rare medical condition, docs remove 232 teeth from teen
Surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an teenager in what they believe may be a world-record operation, the hospital said.
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In this photograph taken on July 22, 2014, dentists operate on seventeen year old Ashik Gavai at JJ Hospital in Mumbai. Surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an teenager in what they believe may be a world-record operation, the hospital said. Ashik Gavai, 17, sought medical help for a swelling on the right side of his lower jaw and the case was referred to the city’s JJ Hospital, where they found he was suffering from a condition known as complex odontoma, head of dentistry Sunanda Dhivare-Palwankar told AFP. Image: AFP
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As the surgery progressed, the team of medicos was aghast to see scores and scores of tiny teeth popping out of that abnormal molar, which was measuring around 3.5X2 cm, or the size of a large marble. Image: AFP
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The entire operation took a whopping seven hours and was the first of its kind case ever handled by the hospital, as well by Dhivare-Palwankar in her three decades’ practice as a dentist.Dhivare-Palwankar described the condition as a ‘developmental anomaly’, which had affected that particular molar at its formation stage in Ashik’s younger age. AFP
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