Doctors successfully removed the tooth in a man who grew up in his nose. This is reported in the scientific journal New England Journal of Medicine.
Specialists noted that a 38-year-old patient appealed to one of the New York clinics with a complaint about the constant nasal congestion. The man was worried that his right nostril was constantly clogged. The investigating the patient of the otolaryngologist found out that he raised an excess tooth in his own nose.
The study revealed a curved partition and “solid white mass”, located in the depths of the nostrils. Computer tomography confirmed that the cause of breathing was tooth. According to physicians, the appearance of a tooth in an atypical place is an extremely rare disease that occurs about 0.1 percent of the population. Much more often teeth germinate incorrectly – for example, in an inverted state – and fall out.
As a result of the operation, the physicians removed from the nasal cavity to the tooth of about 14 millimeters in length and 10 millimeters wide. “Three months after the operation, the patient disappeared the symptoms of the nasal congestion,” the doctors summed up.
Spring Japanese scientists found a genetic mechanism that can help regenerate new indigenous teeth instead of lost. With the help of special antibodies, they were able to stimulate the growth of teeth in mice suffering from congenital agent of teeth.