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'Shark boy' with ultra-rare medical condition had hundreds more teeth than a great white
great white shark spent hours in the dentist's chair having them removed.Ravindran, who was seven years old at the time, stunned medics with a mouth full of what could be the most gnashers ever found in a human mouth. The operating team at Saveetha dental college and hospital in Chennai, India, counted a jaw-dropping total of 526 teeth inside Ravindran's mouth following the lengthy procedure first reported on August 1, 2019.READ MORE: Boy, 13, left with ‘blood gushing' out of mangled face after shark savages himBy comparison, great white sharks - famed for their deadly set of chompers - typically have closer to 300 teeth.Unlike the magnificent yet fearsome predators of the ocean, however, hundreds of the boy's teeth were bundled inside a fleshy sac which had grown over four years.Ravindran was booked into seeing specialists after complaining of occasional toothache in the molar region of his lower jaw.Once laid out on a table, it was clear that some teeth were larger than others, as pointed out by the hospital's head of oral and maxillofacial pathology Pratibha Ramani.Ramani said: “The teeth were of variable sizes that ranged from smallest at 0.1mm to largest 3mm.