Wednesday, July 23, 2014

An extra tooth or two

Ashik Gavai, a teenager from India, had had gum problems and pain for the past year and a half. He was finally correctly diagnosed as having "complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour." The tumor was pretty tough and required the use of a chisel and hammer to open it. Then the deluge started:

Teeth of Indian teenager Ashik Gavai

The deluge was 232 small teeth, the most anyone has heard of. He still has 28 regular teeth.

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