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I feel his pain

India doctors remove 232 teeth from boy’s mouth,Surgeons’ shock after they remove 232 ‘TEETH’ from Indian teenager’s mouth,Doctors remove 232 teeth from boy’s mouth in a record-breaking seven hour long operation,Doctors pull out 232 teeth from teenager’s mouth in Mumbai

Ashvik Gavai, a 17-year-boy was admitted to Mumbai’s JJ Hospital’s dental department with a swelling in his jaw. According to a BBC report, the boy had been suffering for 18 months and would travel from his village to the city for treatment. Doctors described his ‘very rare’ condition as a ‘world record’.

The doctors at the hospital performed a record breaking seven hour surgery and removed 232 teeth from the boy’s mouth. Dr Sunanda Dhiware said: ‘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.’