[Dr Dhiware said]

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

Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai's JJ Hospital's dental department. 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 eventually described his condition as "very rare" and "a world record"and diagnosed it as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth.

 Dr Dhiware said:
It's a sort of benign tumour. At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out. 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."
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  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.

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Posted: at 24-07-2014 10:15 AM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Hmmmm

Posted: at 24-07-2014 10:24 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

na wa oo

Posted: at 24-07-2014 11:03 AM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 24-07-2014 11:12 AM (9 years ago) | Hero

Really rare

Posted: at 24-07-2014 11:30 AM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Nothing wey no dey this country India.. abeg turn off the light make I sleep..

Posted: at 24-07-2014 12:00 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

[Why always India??]

Why always India??

Posted: at 24-07-2014 12:14 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

I think say na 36 teeth person get

Posted: at 24-07-2014 12:20 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

na wah o

Posted: at 24-07-2014 12:35 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

[Somewhere, Luis Suarez is jealous.]

Somewhere, Luis Suarez is jealous.

Posted: at 24-07-2014 01:10 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

asia again... bizarre continent...

Posted: at 24-07-2014 01:25 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

na wa oooo, which kind thing be that

Posted: at 24-07-2014 01:58 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

 

Posted: at 24-07-2014 03:15 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

[Somewhere, Luis Suarez is jealous.]

Somewhere, Luis Suarez is jealous.

Posted: at 24-07-2014 03:17 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

      

Posted: at 24-07-2014 03:51 PM (9 years ago) | Addicted Hero

nawaoooooooooooo

Posted: at 24-07-2014 04:32 PM (9 years ago) | Upcoming

 

Posted: at 24-07-2014 04:42 PM (9 years ago) | Hero

Indians with awful stories 

Posted: at 24-07-2014 04:49 PM (9 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Are you sure this real or film

Posted: at 24-07-2014 06:04 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie

Infact, it's really rare

Posted: at 24-07-2014 06:43 PM (9 years ago) | Newbie

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