Dentists in India extract 526 teeth from seven-year-old boy

Doctors arranging tooth-like structures removed from the mouth of a seven-year-old boy inside a hospital in Chennai, India. - REUTERS/P. Ravikumar

CHENNAI (Reuters): Indian dentists removed a tumour with a record number of 526 teeth inside a seven-year-old boy's mouth, the medical team in the southern city of Chennai said on Friday.

The 200gm growth was lodged in the boy's lower right jaw, said Senthilnathan P., a dentist at Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, where the operation was performed.