Ashik Gavai, a 17-year-old student from Buldhana, underwent the six-hour operation, which involved four doctors at Mumbai’s J.J. Hospital on July 21.
The teen had 232 denticles — abnormal teeth-like growth — lodged in his mouth due to a complex composite odontoma, a benign dental tumor.
The abnormal teeth were embedded in the bone inside the lower right jaw and were not visible from outside the mouth. Surgeons say the surgery was “dangerous” and the patient’s jawbone will take three to four months to heal.
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