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Doctors remove 526 teeth from 7-year-old boy's jaw
Updated On: 01 August, 2019 09:29 AM IST | Chennai | mid-day online correspondent
It took five surgeons and seven pathologists to conduct the operation that was completed in five hours to extract 526 teeth from boy's jaw
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Chennai dentists extract 526 teeth from the mouth of a seven-year-old boy. Pic courtesy/Twitter/ANI
Chennai: In a bizarre incident, 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 of a private dental college-cum-hospital recently. According to PTI, the doctors claim it is the world's first case in which such a large number of teeth have been found and extracted from a single site.
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