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Compound Odontoma (Benign Tumor Generating Many Teeth)

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India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy's mouth

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation. :shock:

Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumabi'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

"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out. [Eek!]
"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. 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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-28437829

And that's the tooth of it! Quite gob-smacking!
 
In case you wondered about the record number of human teeth (broadly defined) removed in a single session ...
Surgeons remove 526 teeth from young boy's mouth

Dental surgeons in India said a boy suffering from a swollen jaw turned out to have 526 teeth that needed to be removed.

Saveetha Dental College and Hospital in Chennai said the boy's parents first noticed the jaw swelling when the boy was three years old, but they did not want him undergoing any procedures at such a young age.

The parents decided to have the boy, now 7, examined when the condition continued to advance.

A surgeon discovered a "compound odontome," a bag-like mass, in the boy's mouth, and it was removed.

The mass turned out to contain 526 tooth-like structures. The objects varied in size, but each had a crown and root-like structures, giving them the shape of teeth.

"It was reminiscent of pearls in an oyster," the dental surgeon said.

The hospital said it was "the first ever case to be documented world wide where so many minute teeth were found in a single individual." ...

SOURCE: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/0...26-teeth-from-young-boys-mouth/9651564677209/
 
Here's an X-ray of the boy's dentition at the time of the operation. The majority of the teeth (mini-teeth, actually ... ) were bundled in the bag-like lesion visible in the lower left.

Teeth-Xray-India-190801.jpg
 
A more detailed account, and multiple additional photos, can be accessed on the Saveetha Dental College website:

https://saveethadental.com/news

NOTE: FYI: Some surgical photos are 'graphic', if you're prone to queasiness.
 
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