Indian doctors remove 232 teeth from teen’s mouth

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INDIA: Doctors extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of 17-year-old boy.
According to the media reports, the operation continued for more than seven hours. It is reported that the teenager had been suffering for 18 months and traveled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.
Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department. Doctors have described his condition as “very rare” and “a world record”. Dr Dhiware said in a statement that:
“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.”
She further added that:

“At first, we couldn’t cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out. Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth.”

The surgery involved two surgeons and two assistants. Ashik now has 28 teeth. Take a look at these pictures: