Doctors Remove 526 Teeth from Boy's Cheek. How'd They Get There?

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Indian doctors excised as many as 526 teeth from a 7-year-old boy's palate in Chennai, India, shown here on July 31, 2019.
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▼ Doctors removed 526 teeth from the right cheek of a 7-year-old boy in Chennai, India, according to a Times of India report. Doctors who performed the surgery suggested that radiation from mobile towers might have been the cause, but there's reason to be skeptical.
The extra teeth were growing in a sort of sack embedded in the boy's jawbone. They were all a half-inch or smaller (0.1 to 15 millimeters) in size, according to the Times, and had crowns, roots and enamel coatings, just like normal teeth.
The boy's parents first noticed something was wrong when that region of his cheek began to swell painfully, according to the Times. As the swelling got worse, they took him to a series of doctors but got no answer, until the physicians at Saveetha Dental College imaged the boy's face and found the tiny teeth.
The boy's condition is called a "compound composite odontoma," according to the Times. A 2014 paper in the journal Case  Reports in Dentistrydescribed  (▪ ▪ ▪)

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ajayjohri

Goodness! This sounds so offbeat...glad that the little boy is fine, and hats off to the doctors!

mazherali

Appears to be some sort of benign tumor. Kudos to the doctors for detecting and treating it appropriately.

parivijesh100

Really appreciation to doctors to handle such a unique case successfully.

themaskeditor

That is un-believable. There could have been some malfunction in the boys body. This may be a very rare and or maybe the only first such instance in the history.

The doctor should take interest and study for the cause and document it thoroughly in public domain. It would help the future generations.