Indian doctors remove 7 teeth from infant
BBC
London: Doctors in the western Indian state of Gujarat have successfully extracted seven teeth from a one-month old infant, reports BBC.
The baby is doing fine now, dental surgeon Dr Meet Ramatri, who carried out the operation in August told BBC Hindis Sushila Singh.
He said that the procedure was carried out in two stages. They first extracted four teeth, and then the other three.
The babys teeth were discovered a few days after his birth.
His parents took him to a paediatrician when he had difficulty breastfeeding.
Upon examining the infant, the paediatrician found white tissue in his mouth and referred the family to Dr Ramatri.
When I examined him, I found that he had seven teeth, Dr Ramatri told BBC Hindi.
Sometimes you see tips (of the teeth) in newborns but they dont grow for a while. In this case, the teeth were fully out.
While Dr Ramatri said he had not read about a case like this before, he felt that it was not necessarily abnormal.
It is a normal biological process. It happened early in this case, he said.
