An Indian boy had a cluster of 526 abnormal teeth removed from his mouth which were hidden inside his jaw bone, according to reports.
The seven-year-old, named as Ravindranath in local media, was taken to his nearest hospital in Chennai after he developed a swollen jaw, which his parents thought was tooth decay.
But scans reportedly showed hundreds of growths, encased in a tumour, that were embedded on the lower right-hand side of his jaw.
The sack, which weighed around 200g, was not visible from the outside of his mouth.
Doctors then surgically removed the growths during a five-hour procedure at Chennai's Saveetha Dental College and Hospital, the Times of India reported.
"We opened up the jaw after administering general anaesthesia and saw a sack inside it,' said Dr Senthilnathan, who led the operation.
"The sack, weighing about 200g, was carefully removed."
Dr Pratibha Ramani, who was involved in the procedure, added that the teeth were in different sizes that varied between 0.1 mm to 15mm.
"They looked like pearls in an oyster. Even the smallest piece had a crown, root and an enamel coating like a toot," he said.
The boy's father, named only as Parbhu, told media Ravindranath's jaw started to swell when he was three.
However, he claimed his son "could not sit still" for tests at a local hospital, prompting them to leave and not return.
The doctors said the boy's condition was called compound composite odontoma.
