On November 12, Gia Lai Children's Hospital announced that it had just received and treated a 4-year-old patient with a tooth growing in his nasal cavity.
Surgical team removes impacted teeth from the patient's nasal cavity at Gia Lai Children's Hospital (Photo: Gia Lai Children's Hospital).
Accordingly, the patient is named NDC (4 years old, residing in Duc Co district, Gia Lai province). Previously, the family of child C discovered that the child had a sore nose and a runny nose on the right side for a long time. The patient was taken to the hospital for examination on November 9. The patient had been treated in many places but the disease did not improve. Through examination, it was found that there was a hard mass protruding from the right nasal cavity, and a hard density in the floor of the right nose.
The patient was prescribed an endoscopy combined with a CT scan, through which the doctor determined that there was a tooth growing upwards, misplaced in the patient's nose. This was also the cause of the patient's prolonged right-sided nasal discharge.
Immediately after discovering this rare case of a patient with an inverted tooth, doctors at the Children's Hospital decided to surgically remove the "inverted" tooth.
Accordingly, the patient was anesthetized with endotracheal intubation, the team of ENT specialists in collaboration with maxillofacial surgeons at Gia Lai Children's Hospital successfully performed the tooth extraction surgery. After the surgery, the patient was healthy, had no nosebleeds and was discharged immediately.
According to the leader of Gia Lai Children's Hospital, teeth growing in the nose is a very rare case. In medical literature, there were only 23 cases of teeth growing in the nostrils recorded in the period from 1959-2008. This is a rare case in Vietnam.
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/ca-benh-hi-huu-tre-4-tuoi-moc-rang-trong-khoang-mui-192231112132800413.htm
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