--- title: 7-Year-Old Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth description: The 7-year-old boy's parents brought him to the hospital for swelling in his lower right jaw canonical: https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/ author: Amy Gunia article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-08-02T09:30:16.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T00:08:35.184Z article:section: World og:title: Indian Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth og:description: His parents took him to the hospital for swelling in his lower jaw og:url: https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f7ecb9cdc17dda0/698a00c6929fadb9f2bf4b1c/dental-xray-teeth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: dental-xray-teeth og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Indian Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth twitter:description: His parents took him to the hospital for swelling in his lower jaw twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f7ecb9cdc17dda0/698a00c6929fadb9f2bf4b1c/dental-xray-teeth.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 7-Year-Old Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth by [Amy Gunia](/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Aug 2, 2019 9:30 AM CUT  Dental Panoramic X Ray. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images) Dental Panoramic X Ray. (Photo By BSIP/UIG Via Getty Images)Universal Images Group/Getty Images by [Amy Gunia](/author/amy-gunia/) ## Amy Gunia Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong. Aug 2, 2019 9:30 AM CUT Doctors removed 526 teeth from a 7-year-old boy’s mouth during [surgery](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/7-year-old-boy-had-526-teeth-removed-from-his-mouth/ "undefined") in Chennai, India, CBS News reported Thursday. The boy was brought to the hospital with swelling in his jaw, according to a [statement](https://saveethadental.com/news/526-teeth-in-a-7-year-olds-mouth-doctors-from-saveetha-dental-college-removed-all-of-them "undefined") from the Saveetha Dental College and Hospital. Doctors decided to operate and discovered what they said resembled a “bag like mass” weighing almost half a pound which contained the teeth. “This is the [first ever case](https://saveethadental.com/news/526-teeth-in-a-7-year-olds-mouth-doctors-from-saveetha-dental-college-removed-all-of-them "undefined") to be documented world wide, where so many minute teeth were found in a single individual,” the Saveetha Dental College said. The statement said that the condition is known as “compound odontome,” and that removal of the teeth required five hours of surgery. The boy’s parents first brought him to a hospital when he was 3 years old after they noticed swelling in his lower right jaw. But the boy did not cooperate with doctors, so his condition went undiagnosed, the dental college said. A CBS affiliate posted a photo of the teeth that had been removed from the boy on their Twitter account. > [](https://twitter.com/kgbt/status/1157020928171302912) “It was reminiscent of pearls in an oyster,” one the doctors said, according to the statement. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/"},"headline":"7-Year-Old Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth","datePublished":"2019-08-02T09:30:16.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-24T00:08:35.184Z","description":"His parents took him to the hospital for swelling in his lower jaw","url":"https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/","keywords":["India","onetime","overnight"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f7ecb9cdc17dda0/698a00c6929fadb9f2bf4b1c/dental-xray-teeth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Amy Gunia","jobTitle":"Gunia was a reporter for TIME based in Hong Kong.","url":"https://time.com/author/amy-gunia/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9f7ecb9cdc17dda0/698a00c6929fadb9f2bf4b1c/dental-xray-teeth.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"dental-xray-teeth","caption":"Dental X-Ray Teeth","creditText":"Universal Images Group/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/india/","name":"India"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5642350/india-boy-526-teeth-removed/","name":"7-Year-Old Boy Has 526 Teeth Removed From His Mouth"}}]}] ```