Most of us only have to contend with having a few teeth removed in our lifetime. However, a young boy in India recently had to have more than 500 teeth extracted.
Seven-year-old Ravindran complained to his parents about his jaw hurting. After experiencing severe pain and swelling, he was admitted to a hospital – his parents fearing he may have cancer.
The doctors were absolutely stunned when they took a closer look. After performing X-rays and a CT Scan, they realized the boy had a lesion in his mouth. Not just that, it was completely filled with hundreds of tiny teeth.
The bizarre case appears to be a world first.
It seems the tooth fairy may be missing something.
What doctors found in the young boy’s jaw, they said, was a 200-gram, bag-like mass.
The five-inch sac, which contained 526 teeth of varying sizes, had to be surgically removed. It took doctors approximately five hours to meticulously remove all the tiny teeth from it, too.
Though some were minuscule particles, they varied in size, and they all seemed to have the properties of teeth. The pathologists also described them as being “reminiscent of pearls in an oyster.”
While the boy’s parents took him to see a doctor four years prior, the condition went undiagnosed. Doctors found the three-year-old uncooperative, and they seemed unconcerned with the swelling in his jaw at that stage.
However, Ravindran’s condition progressed, and he suffered for nearly four years prior to receiving proper treatment.
His parents are incredibly relieved that their son is finally better.
