Doctors remove 80 teeth from boy's jaw

[ErikJ]

When it comes to astonishing dental stories, India is miles ahead in 2014.
Back in July, doctors removed 232 teeth from a teenage boy’s mouth in a single operation in Mumbai.

On Friday, a seven-year-old child had 80 teeth removed from his upper jaw after nearly four hours of surgery at the Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital in the city of Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Dr Maheshwari told The Times of India, "The patient had visited us five days ago with abscess in upper jaw. Upon medical investigations, it was diagnosed a case of odontoma. We planned the surgery and removed 80 teeth after clearing abscess, which is rare in tender age."

Odontoma is a rare type of tumor affecting the jaw or gums that sees a concentration of tooth-like structures.
Local reports named the boy as Vivek. He had apparently developed a tumour on the left side of his mouth and was taken to MY hospital after treatment in his village failed to remedy his situation.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/doctors-remove-80-teeth-from-boys-jaw-9947015.html

[Omaha Steve]

1. WOW!

Never heard of anything like this that I can remember.

[jen1980]

2. Sounds like an insurance scam...

and the doctor that bills per tooth.

[demtenjeep]

3. one of my nephews had two sets of permanent teeth.

they pulled all of the first set and it took a while for the 2nd set to come in.

for a while we joked that maybe the x-rays were wrong but finally his teeth grew and all was right with the world again.

[951-Riverside]

4. Is this because of the Environment or the Incest/Rape culture in India?

There are also babies born with multiple arms and legs

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2839527/Baby-born-four-arms-four-legs-dubbed-God-Boy-parents-say-looks-like-Indian-God.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=5055673

According to the National Crime Records Bureau 2013 annual report, 24,923 rape cases were reported across India in 2012. Out of these, 24,470 were committed by relative or neighbor; in other words, the victim knew the alleged rapist in 98 per cent of the cases.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_India

And this is just from the cases reported.

[Thor_MN]

5. Why not simply search Odontoma rather than try to pound a square peg into a pet hole?

[ErikJ]

6. Tumors usually from environment

It sounds like the tumor screwed up the gene that stops more teeth from developing which goes back about 400 million years ago to original fish! The first teeth developed from skin scales and were hundreds. Heres a N. American fish that looks like it has the same problem.

[Boreal]

9. what the hell!

I've never seen fish teeth like that. Don't fish usually have pointy teeth?

[B Calm]

10. N. American fish, what species? Where did you get that picture?

[Thor_MN]

11. That is a real fish, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the OP

It is a sheepshead. https://www.google.com/search?q=Archosargus+probatocephalus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

They eat, along with just about anything, shellfish, so they have some gnarly teeth. But the sheephead fish's dentition has zilch to do with "the environment" when the phrase is used as being something to do with pollution.

And it's a total tangent to the OP.

[B Calm]

12. Oh okay, it's a sheepshead or fresh water drum. Around here

in Indiana the locals call them perch. Never could figure out why they call them that. Perch to me is either walleye or yellow perch, but then I fished up in Minnesota and Canada more than I did around here.

I know the picture had nothing to do with the OP, I was just puzzled on that N. American fish.

Thanks!

[joshbrandwood]

7. Sickening

I would throw up if I had that many teeth taken out.

[Quantess]

8. Freaky!