In India, the recent case of a teenager who had a swelling in his mouth with an abnormally large number of teeth was almost exactly the same. This time the little girl was so unique.
When a seven-year-old girl with a tumor in the lower part of her face was admitted to the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, the doctors could not even imagine what they were going to see.
A seven-year-old girl from New Delhi, India, complained to her mother of severe toothache. Seeing a swelling in the lower part of her daughter's face, the parent took her to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences' department of oral and maxillofacial surgery, deciding that the treatment would be limited to the extraction of a baby tooth. Later it turned out that she was very wrong.
According to the Mirror tabloid, the doctors sent the little patient for an X-ray and, based on its result, diagnosed an odontoma - a tumor that occurs due to malformations of dental tissues. When the girl's mother asked what the problem was, the experts did not go deep into explanations, saying that 202 "extra" teeth had grown in her daughter's mouth.
“The results of the study shocked us,” says Ajoy Roychoudhary, head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. - We usually deal with patients who have developed several abnormal tooth-like structures, but 202 teeth in the mouth of a seven-year-old child is something out of the ordinary. Of course, our first priority was to remove them."
The surgeons noted that although the operation itself to extract the abnormal bone formations was relatively simple, they had to work hard for it to be successful.
“During the surgical intervention, high precision of actions and utmost caution was required from us, since even the slightest mistake could lead to a fracture of the jaw, which in turn threatened with irreversible deformation,” explained Ajoy Roichudhari.
According to local media reports, after the operation, the Indian resident, whose name was not disclosed, was able to chew food and felt well. The girl's family members told reporters that she can now lead a normal life.
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“Our family thanks the staff of the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery for the successful operation,” the head of the family turned to the doctors. "You took her pain away and helped her return to normal life."