Doctors Remove 526 Teeth From 7 Year-old Boy's Jaw
Doctors Remove 526 Teeth From 7 Year-old Boy's Jaw On this day, 01, August, 2019, Doctors do a physical count of the teeth removed from the jaw of the seven year-old boy In the world’s first case, around 526 teeth of varying sizes were extracted from a seven-year-old boy’s right lower jaw in a five-hour surgery carried out by doctors in the Indian city of Chennai. According to Press Trust of India, the doctors claim it was the world’s first case in which such a large number of teeth were found and extracted from a single site. Dr. Pratibha Ramani, Head of Department of oral and maxillofacial pathology at the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, a private hospital and college, stated that the boy was brought to the hospital with a complaint of a swelling in the jaw. All the 526 teeth removed from the seven year-old boy “The issue was noticed when the child was three years old. It was ignored then as he did not cooperate.. four years later, it took a lot of efforts to convince h...