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A dentist in Chennai, India has 526 miniature teeth from the mouth of a seven-year-old boy. The boy to his mother that he toothaches. She took the boy to a dentist, who the boy had hundreds of tiny teeth in a sac (a small, empty space) inside the boy's jaw. The sac near the molar area at the back of the jaw. Professor Pratibha Ramani, the head of a dental department at the hospital, spoke to reporters about the surgery the little boy . She told reporters: "The teeth of variable sizes that from the smallest at 0.1mm to the largest at 3mm. They all a small crown, enamel and a small root." She said the boy from a very rare dental problem.

The operation to the tiny teeth from the boy's jaw took over five hours. Professor Ramani about how her team of surgeons removed the teeth. She said: "We had to down into the top of the lower jaw, a window and remove the sac." She added: "As the sac was deeper into the tissue, the size of the teeth was becoming very small." Despite over 500 teeth in his jaw, the boy did not a lot of pain. Ms Ramani said: "We had to a lot of counseling sessions with him for him to undergo surgery. We have a very good counseling team who have expertise in with kids." The boy now has 21 teeth. He is well and is no longer in pain.