Surgeons remove 232 teeth from Indian teenager
Surgeons
in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from the mouth of an Indian teenager in
what they believe may be a world-record operation, the hospital said
Thursday.
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.
After
removing those they also found a larger "marble-like" structure which
they struggled to shift and eventually had to "chisel out" and remove in
fragments, she added.
The youngster's father, Suresh Gavai, said that the family had been worried that Ashik's swelling was a cancerous growth.
"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," Gavai told the Mumbai Mirror newspaper.
Dhivare-Palwankar
said the literature they had come across on the condition showed a
maximum of 37 teeth being removed in such a procedure, whereas she and
her team had counted more than 232 taken from Gavai's mouth.
"I think it could be a world record," she said.
Gavai's jawbone structure was maintained during the operation so it should heal without any deformities, the surgeon added.
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