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  • Indian doctors were at their wit’s end after excising as many as 500 teeth from a seven-year-old’s palate in Chennai, India. The young patient was only three when his lower right jaw started to swell up but was left undiagnosed for four years as his parents lacked the right knowledge. The doctors diagnosed it to be a rare case of "compound composite ondontome", the boy was brought to the hospital with a swelling in his lower right jaw. "Later as swelling increased, the parents brought the boy to our hospital," said P.Senthilnathan, Professor -Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at at the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital on Wednesday. According to the doctors, the patient's family was worried that the swelling was carcinogenic. An X-ray and CT-scan of the boy's lower right jaw showed a lot of rudimentary teeth following which the doctors decided on the surgery. A team of doctors operated on the boy for five-long hours and successfully removed 526 teeth-like structures from his mouth. "We opened up the jaw after administering general anaesthesia and saw a bag/sack inside it. The sack, weighing about 200 grams, was carefully removed and was later found to contain 526 teeth -- small, medium and big sized,” said Dr Senthilnathan. Dr. Pratibha Ramani, Professor and Head of Department of oral and maxillofacial pathology, said, “Social consciousness on emerging environmental hazards is imperative. Every tissue information is patient’s right, surgical decision making is the key and final diagnostic expert is the pathologist.” According to the doctors, this is the first ever case documented in the world in which in an individual has been found to have so many minute teeth. Though some were very tiny particles, the doctors said, they had the properties of teeth. It took five long hours for the doctors to remove all the minute teeth from the sack. "It was reminiscent of pearls in an oyster," the doctors said. "The boy was normal three days after the sur
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  • Andrew Ridgeley, one half of British pop duo Wham!, sings during their performance live on stage.
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  • May 1, 2020, Nairobi, Kenya: A health worker performs a mouth swab test on a resident during the corona virus pandemic. A mass testing of COVID-19 cases in the area of Kawangware was carried out on residents. Kenya has so far reported 411 cases of the coronavirus, 144 recoveries and 17 deaths. (Credit Image: © Dennis Sigwe/SOPA Images via ZUMA Wire)
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  • EDITORIAL USE ONLY: Amy Winehouse performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in Seaclose Park on the Isle of Wight.
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  • September 15, 2016 - Kiev, Ukraine - An animal worker intimately feeds a lion during the premiere of a new international program of the National Circus of Ukraine called 'Extreme Arena.' (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 15, 2016 - Kiev, Ukraine - The premiere of a new international program of the National Circus of Ukraine ''Extreme Arena' (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 15, 2016 - Kiev, Ukraine - The premiere of a new international program of the National Circus of Ukraine ''Extreme Arena' (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 15, 2016 - Kiev, Ukraine - The premiere of a new international program of the National Circus of Ukraine ''Extreme Arena' (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 15, 2016 - Kiev, Ukraine - The premiere of a new international program of the National Circus of Ukraine ''Extreme Arena' (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • The Vegetarian Festival, Phuket, Thailand..Phuket Island in the south of Thailand has some of the world’s finest beaches but annually in Phuket Town, a festival takes place to which few of those sun-worshippers ever venture - or even are aware of: The Vegetarian Festival...It is the dawn of the eight day of the ninth lunar month in the Chinese calendar. .A women skewers her face and she appears to feel no pain, neither does she shed any blood. In another part of the same area, a young man, staring blankly into space, as if in a trance, takes a sword and slowly pierces the side of his face. The blade of the sword passes clean through one cheek and exits out of the other side of his mouth - without bleeding...Yet there is no trickery or magic involved for this is the famous ten-day long Vegetarian Festival. The participants - penitents and devotees called Ma Song -  who invite the Spirit of the Gods to possess their bodies in seemingly horrendous acts of self-mutilation are merely participating in the Chinese Song Dao ceremony, the rituals of which stretch back nearly 160 years. These acts of apparent torture are performed in the belief that they will achieve great kudos for the sufferer whilst at the same time freeing them of any spiritual problems; in addition, for the period of the festival, they wear a white loin-cloth and smock, cleanse their bodies by abstaining from sex and alcohol, spend long periods meditating in the town’s two main Chinese temples and eat only vegetarian food that does not contain ‘sharp’ tastes such as garlic or chillies...The Festival is in honour of the Nine Emperor Gods who control people’s destinies and is thought to have begun during the reign of King Rama V, around the middle of the nineteenth century, when hundreds of Chinese, working in Phuket’s tin mines, began to neglect their rituals for the Gods; at the same time, many died from a malarial plague that also killed off a visiting theatre tr
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  • Flying FA-18 “Hornet” Aircraft, the U.S. Navy Aerial Demonstration Team, The Blue Angels, performed in Annapolis on Wednesday afternoon during Commissioning Week at The U.S. Naval Academy. Local boaters anchored off on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Severn River to view the aerial show. (DoD photo by Marvin Lynchard)
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