New York doctors remove tooth growing inside man’s nose
By Ben Hooper
New York doctors remove tooth growing inside man’s nose
Surgeons with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York said a 38-year-old man who reported trouble breathing through his right nostril had a tooth growing in his nasal cavity. Photo courtesy of the New England Journal of Medicine
Feb. 24 (UPI) — Doctors at a New York hospital said a man who came in complaining of difficulty breathing through his right nostril was found to have a tooth growing in his nasal cavity.
Drs. Sagar Khanna and Michael Turner, surgeons with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said in a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that the 38-year-old man told doctors he had been having trouble breathing through his right nostril for several years.
Doctors discovered he had a deviated septum — a condition in which the partition between nasal passages is pushed to one side — and a rhinoscopy conducted with a small camera discovered the cause — a tooth growing on “the floor of the right nostril.”
The ectopic tooth, a term for a tooth growing in an abnormal place, was measured at about .6 inch long.
The surgeons said they removed the tooth without complications, and the man reported during a follow-up visit three months after the procedure that he was able to breath normally through both nostrils
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