Reading such news, you involuntarily begin to think that in India there is a new wave of human mutations, this time not extra arms and legs, but extra teeth. A lot of extra teeth.
The other day, a seven-year-old Indian had as many as 80 teeth removed. They were all removed from the child's upper jaw. The complex and dangerous operation lasted almost four hours, writes The Times Of India.
Dr. Bharat Maheshwari said that the boy was taken to the hospital with an abscess of the upper jaw. “During the examination, he was diagnosed with odontoma (pathological development of the jaw bones). We planned the operation and removed 80 teeth after the abscess was removed. This is a very rare occurrence at such an early age,”the doctor said.
Another physician who participated in the operation suggested that if the child had not been brought to the hospital at his age of seven, then in four years he would have had two hundred teeth removed. The whole difficulty of the operation was that with such a disease, the jaw bones become weaker, and this increases the risk of fractures.