Posted on 12/04/2021 5:56:59 AM PST by Ouch
A man’s years of trouble breathing through his nose turned out to have a much stranger explanation than anyone could have imagined. His doctors, in a paper out this week, describe finding a tooth poking through his nasal cavity. Thankfully, the wayward chomper was removed with no complications, and the man’s stuffy symptoms went away.
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The study on the nose tooth was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. According to the report, a 38-year-old man had visited an ear, nose, throat clinic at Mount Sinai in New York with complaints of difficulty breathing through his right nostril—a problem that had been going on for several years at that point.
Physical examination revealed a deviated septum (the cartilage in the middle that separates one nostril from the other, which can get displaced for various reasons), along with some kind of bony obstruction and a two-centimeter-long tear towards the back of the septum. When they looked closer using a rhinoscope—basically a camera attached to a tube—they found a “hard, nontender, white mass” sticking out of the floor of the nostril. And when they ran a CT scan, they clearly identified what this mass was: a tooth growing where it shouldn’t have been. You can click here to view moderately unsettling medical images of the tooth.
In anatomical terms, the man had an ectopic tooth, ectopic being a catch-all term for the abnormal placement of a body part. Ectopic teeth can happen for several reasons. Sometimes, our permanent adult teeth can grow out, or erupt, in an unusual path. Other times, the process of replacing our baby teeth doesn’t go quite right and a baby tooth ends up being pushed out by its adult counterpart, but doesn’t fall out as expected and just stays in our mouth, albeit in a very awkward position. Or, an extra tooth could spontaneously appear even in adulthood. The doctors don’t offer an explanation as to how this man’s stray tooth formed, but whatever the cause, genetics are considered a risk factor for the condition.
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*drunkenly rants*
I’M GONNA PUNCH YOU SO HARD YOUR TEETH ARE GONNA BE GROWING OUT OF YOUR NOSE!!!
“Ectopic teeth”.
Yikes.
Rare as hen’s teeth.
Suddenly I don’t feel so badly about the hair growing out of mine…
Just think, if you had both teeth AND hair growing out of your nose!! You’d be the luckiest guy in the world!
Brings a whole new meaning to eating boogers.
It would be great if this could be controlled and directed. Imagine going to a dentist to grow a new tooth instead of having a crown, bridge or dentures
That is a great looking tooth in near mint condition.
Looks difficult to floss though.
WINNER! Lol!
A wisdom tooth that had nowhere else to go?
Well, it could be worse - could be a lower tooth...
Women get teeth in uterus. Dermoid cyst
Someone in my family had a lot of extra teeth but they all stayed in the mouth until a dentist removed them. Earliest pictures (xrays) still in the family album look like a fully packed commuter plane at Christmas Eve.
My wife, at the age of 45 had an ectopic Thyroid gland removed from her neck. She’s now 72 and has fully recovered. The surgeon explained that the Thyroid tumor was probably the result of just one cell being deposited into her neck region when she was an embryo.
Funny, but it’s not that her teeth are so big, it’s that her smile is so deliberately exaggerated.
Heh! Good one!
*hides hand behind cushion* WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?!
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