Seventeen-year-old
Ashiq Gavai of Buldhana, India, suffered a growth and pain in his jaw,
but local doctors could not diagnose the problem. Fearing cancer, his
father took him to J J Hospital in Mumbai, where doctors diagnosed Gavai
with
composite odontoma, a tumor in the part of the jaw that produces teeth.
Ashiq
was diagnosed with a condition called composite odontoma or a benign
tumour of the tooth, which can cause difficulties in eating, swallowing,
and lead to a grotesque swelling of the face, though it is not
life-threatening.
"The condition has been known to affect the
upper jaw and a maximum of 25 teeth have been extracted from the tumour.
But in Ashiq's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and we
removed more than 232 teeth," Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of the J J Dental
Department, said.
Ateam of two main surgeons and two assisting
surgeons performed an intra-oral procedure as they tried to remove every
bit of the tumour. "While a few teeth were loose, others were in clumps
which made it difficult to count. The tumour was an abnormal growth of
the second molar which did not come out. It was also pressing on the
wisdom tooth which we had to remove," Dhiware said.
Gavai
was left with only 28 normal teeth, but will require followup surgery
to repair the hole in his jaw. The hospital is going to forward the case
to the Guinness Book of World Records for
the most teeth extracted from one person. See more pictures
here.
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