{"id":34134,"date":"2014-07-24T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34134"},"modified":"2014-07-24T09:23:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:23:03","slug":"india-doctors-remove-232-teeth-from-boys-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/india-doctors-remove-232-teeth-from-boys-mouth\/","title":{"rendered":"India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy’s mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"
Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.<\/p>\n
Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department, told the BBC.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Doctors have described his condition as “very rare” and “a world record”.<\/p>\n
‘Small white pearls’<\/strong><\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n