He was 260 teeth instead of 28. Ashik Gavai, a 17 year old Indian teenager, had been martyred for eighteen months. After going to a Bombay hospital, doctors diagnosed her with a tumor in her dental tissue and removed 232 teeth.
The operation mobilized two surgeons and two assistants for more than six hours to remove the multitude of teeth which appeared in the form of small pearls.
The young man suffered from a complex form of odontoma which results in the growth of a large number of teeth instead of just one. “Only one gum formed a multitude of teeth. It’s kind of a benign tumor, “Sunanda Dhiware, director of the dental department at JJ Hospital in Bombay, told the BBC.
The teenager who was able to find a normal right cheek, risks being included in the Guinness Book of Records. And for good reason, the record for a tumorof this kind was 37 teeth removed …
