The Nose Tooth
Doctors in the New England Journal of Medicine recently reported on an unusual case in which a patient had a tooth growing into his nose (a photo can be seen here). The man had spent years with a stuffed-up right nostril by the time he visited them, and a rhinoscopy revealed a rare ectopic tooth.
Gnarly as a nose tooth might be, the man wasn’t cursed to live with it forever. The doctors surgically removed the 14-millimeter-long chomper, and the man’s nasal congestion cleared up soon after. No word on whether he was able to keep the tooth.
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