Surgeons remove 232 teeth from 17-year’s boy

Dental surgeons in India say they have removed 232 small “tooth-like structures” from the mouth of a teenage boy . Surgeons has said this a rare medical condition in world dental history .


They say the 17-year-old from a small village in western India had been suffering from jaw pain and swelling for more than 18 months.
Surgeon Dr. Vandana Thoravade says Ashik Gavai suffered complex odontoma, a rare condition in which a tumor grows under a gum and creates smaller tooth-like growths called denticles.