Surgeons in Mumbai have removed 232 teeth from 17-year-old Ashik Gawai, according to BBC News.
The boy has a congenital defect of the teeth, and extra hard tissues have formed in his oral cavity for a long time, which caused a complex odontoma.
After a severe seven-hour operation, the teenager has 28 teeth left. At first, the doctors did not realize the complexity of the situation and decided that it would be an on-duty operation. But after they examined the oral cavity, they saw a huge amount of teeth.
To pull out the largest tooth, it had to be crushed with a drill, and the fragments that remained were removed. Two surgeons and two assistants took part in the operation. Thanks to them, the boy's appearance will not change - the doctors managed to save the entire structure of the jaw.
Sunanda Divar, one of the dentists who performed this operation in her dental department, shared that before this case, the maximum number of teeth she had extracted was 37.
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