In an extremely unusual procedure, a team of doctors from Saudi Arabia did something extremely strange, here is what happened.
For 3 years, twice a month, a 22-year-old man’s nose was bleeding. Eventually, he asked for specialized help and went to the hospital. What the doctors discovered in his nose made them remain speechless too: the doctors discovered a white, bone-like table, 1 centimeter long.
The bottom line was that it was an extra tooth that had somehow grown in his nose! The patient had a complete set of very well-aligned teeth, according to his case report. Doctors removed the extra tooth after inducing general anesthesia in the man, according to Live Science.
The patient than fully recovered and after three months had no nosebleeds. Strange as it may seem, teeth that grow in the nose are not uncommon and may even grow from top to bottom, but they rarely grow even into the nasal cavity, or so said Dr. John Hellstein, a dentist and professor of oral pathology. at the University of Iowa.
The patient treated most likely had something called mesiodens, a common type of extra tooth that usually grows around an incisor.
Here’s what the extra tooth looked like:
