526 teeth were removed from a 7-year-old boy’s jaw in Chennai.

Dentists at a Chennai hospital had removed 526 teeth from the lower jaw of a 7-year-old boy named Ravindranath.

Dentists at a Chennai hospital had removed 526 teeth from the lower jaw of a 7-year-old boy named Ravindranath.According to the doctors at Saveetha Dental College, the 526 teeth that were of different sizes, were extracted from the right lower jaw of the child. A tumor (4×3 cm) had also been removed from the lower right side of the child's jaw following the surgery that lasted for five hours. Five surgeons and seven pathologists were engaged in the operation to remove the tumor. The doctors got to know about the 526 teeth only after the surgery as these abnormal teeth were not visible from outside the mouth.

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