A 38 year old man spent a lot of time enduring the feeling of not being able to breathe well through his nose until he decided to go to the doctor in New York.
You were treated by a otolaryngologist at Mount Sinai , that he found a deviated septum, something very common, along with something else that was obstructing his right nostril: a “ solid white mass, not painful ”, which could be appreciated thanks to a rhinoscope.
The specialists, who published the case in the New England Journal of Medicine , explained that a CT scan revealed that that mass it was neither more nor less than a tooth .
According to experts, less than 1% of people suffer from the phenomenon known as “ectopic tooth” , which is the one that arises in a place where it shouldn’t. It is usually the mouth or jaw, and a few other cases where growth has been detected in the nose.
Experts point out that is not always It is necessary to remove these unexpected teeth , unless they are a cause of discomfort or symptoms, as in this case, in which the piece prevents normal breathing of the patient, therefore who underwent an intranasal surgical extraction.
In some cases, the teeth do not erupt and remain in the bone. Then symptoms appear like sensitivity and headache , it is called “tooth included”.
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