Saturday, December 11, 2010

Girl with 33 extra teeth operated on in Italy


The girl, suffering from a rare form of dysplasia - an incorrect formation of separate parts, organs or tissues of the body - as a result of which she erupted 33 extra teeth in the clinic operated on the Italian city of Rimini

Complex operation was done by a 16-year resident of Sicily. She removed six extra teeth, RIA Novosti reported.

"Perhaps we are talking about a unique situation, because the disease is only one in a million can cause the growth of additional teeth, and we have never before encountered such a number of them", - told reporters Dr. Mauro Merli.
The girl removed the teeth from 2001, during which time she pulled 21 teeth. A few months later the girl will have to postpone the final operation during which doctors removed the last six extra teeth. As a result, the patient should stay put at her age, number of teeth.

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