India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy's mouth

[Velar Fricative]

The pictures at the link aren't horrible because even I didn't barf when I saw them and I barf at anything squeamish. But OMG OMG OMG.

www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-28437829

Doctors in India have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year-old boy in a seven-hour operation.


Ashik Gavai was brought in with a swelling in his right jaw, Dr Sunanda Dhiware, head of Mumabi's JJ Hospital's dental department, told the BBC.


The teenager had been suffering for 18 months and travelled to the city from his village after local doctors failed to identify the cause of the problem.


Doctors have described his condition as "very rare" and "a world record".


'Small white pearls'


"Ashik's malaise was diagnosed as a complex composite odontoma where a single gum forms lots of teeth. It's a sort of benign tumour," Dr Dhiware said.


"At first, we couldn't cut it out so we had to use the basic chisel and hammer to take it out.


"Once we opened it, little pearl-like teeth started coming out, one-by-one. Initially, we were collecting them, they were really like small white pearls. But then we started to get tired. We counted 232 teeth," she added.


The surgery, conducted on Monday, involved two surgeons and two assistants. Ashik now has 28 teeth.


Describing Ashik's case as "very rare", Dr Dhiware said she had "not seen anything like this before in my 30-year career", but said she was "thrilled to get such an exciting case".


"According to medical literature available on the condition, it is known to affect the upper jaw and a maximum of 37 teeth have been extracted from the tumour in the past. But in Ashik's case, the tumour was found deep in the lower jaw and it had hundreds of teeth."


Ashik's father Suresh Gavai was quoted by the Mumbai Mirror as saying that his son complained of severe pain a month ago.


"I was worried that it may turn out to be cancer so I brought him to Mumbai," he said.

[summer]

232 teeth??

A hammer and a chisel??

[mrsbro]

(huh) OMG
That poor kid. I thought having wisdom teeth hurt.

[pamela]

Why does it seem like these type of crazy medical things always come out of India. I'm assuming huge population and because of the povery and rural nature of most of it, lack of heath care so that things normally caught early are allowed to grow to amazing levels. And they do have modern medicine to be able to document it if the person is able to get there to be seen.

[Deleted]

Poor kid. He does not look thrilled in those pictures. And all those dorky dentists are like WAOW LOOK WHAT WE DID ZOMG

[pedanticwench]

Jul 23, 2014 14:12:48 GMT -5 pamela said:

Why does it seem like these type of crazy medical things always come out of India. I'm assuming huge population and because of the povery and rural nature of most of it, lack of heath care so that things normally caught early are allowed to grow to amazing levels. And they do have modern medicine to be able to document it if the person is able to get there to be seen.

^o)

[obladi]

sweet jesus

[sparrowsong]

I'd actually be into more gory pictures, including exactly how swollen it was before they started. I geek out on stuff like this. That is just crazy!

[BeagleMama]

Jul 23, 2014 15:28:50 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

I'd actually be into more gory pictures, including exactly how swollen it was before they started. I geek out on stuff like this. That is just crazy!

Same! I need more pictures to understand where all these teeth were.

[pedanticwench]

Because weird medical shit happens everywhere. But, I'm probably just being salty.

[pamela]

Jul 23, 2014 15:49:25 GMT -5 asdfjkl said:

Jul 23, 2014 14:30:52 GMT -5 pedanticwench said:

I side eye Pamela all the fucking time, but I don't quite get the side-eye here.  Sounds like a reasonable assumption.  Wasn't the petrified extra-uterine baby (headline: woman pregnant for 40 years) out of India, too?

More than one out of India, although I think the most recent was out of Brazil or somewhere else S.A.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Even sharks don't have this many teeth. I want to cry. This is just terrible.

[cville]

Jul 23, 2014 13:44:31 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

The pictures at the link aren't horrible because even I didn't barf when I saw them and I barf at anything squeamish. But OMG OMG OMG.

You are a liar.  I clicked on the link and I want to vomit on my shoes.  I keep rubbing my jaw now.  I'm so grossed out.

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

Aside: even though I worked for a dental school for 5 years and scanning x-rays was one of my daily job duties, I always got creeped out by pediatric dental x-rays. The teeth coming in behind teeth! Eeeee!

[ttt]

I feel like I've had a bunch of nightmares about this exact situation.

[pixy0stix]

One of my favorite youtube channels is an Indian doctor who extracts boils and stuff from people and videos them.

This is probably one of those things I shouldn't admit out loud.

[sushi]

Jul 23, 2014 21:26:58 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

One of my favorite youtube channels is an Indian doctor who extracts boils and stuff from people and videos them.

This is probably one of those things I shouldn't admit out loud.

You know I'm not going to judge this. I don't even mind watching guinea worm extraction.

[RandZB]

Jul 23, 2014 21:26:58 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

One of my favorite youtube channels is an Indian doctor who extracts boils and stuff from people and videos them.

This is probably one of those things I shouldn't admit out loud.

I made the mistake of watching a video of these girls digging out a 25-year old blackhead from somewhere on their aunt's body (shoulder, I think). It was as big as a pencil eraser. I nearly puked, but I had to see that thing come out. And then there were all these related videos of people popping massive pimples. :shudder:

[sunny]

the gifs summarize my feelings exactly. NOPE!!!!

[blacksred]

Jul 23, 2014 21:26:58 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

One of my favorite youtube channels is an Indian doctor who extracts boils and stuff from people and videos them.

This is probably one of those things I shouldn't admit out loud.

Yup on the weird part of youtube. I always fall down that rabbit hole.

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[Velar Fricative]

Jul 23, 2014 16:58:37 GMT -5 cville said:

Jul 23, 2014 13:44:31 GMT -5 Velar Fricative said:

The pictures at the link aren't horrible because even I didn't barf when I saw them and I barf at anything squeamish. But OMG OMG OMG.

You are a liar.  I clicked on the link and I want to vomit on my shoes.  I keep rubbing my jaw now.  I'm so grossed out.

Sorry, I guess I scrolled pretty fast.