More than 500 teeth have been removed from a child's mouth in India, doctors said.

The seven-year-old boy had complained to his parents since the age of three that he had a swelling on the right side of his lower jaw.

After four years of discomfort, doctors in Chennai discovered a large growth within his jaw.

Image: The teeth were of varying size

Image: More than 500 teeth were removed from the boy's mouth

Hundreds of hard structures were found within the lump, which was around five by three centimetres in size.

Once it had been removed, medical staff cut it open and found 526 teeth of varying sizes inside.


Image: The seven-year-old complained of a swelling in his mouth

Dental surgeon Dr Senthilnathan said: "The tumour is very nicely demarcated from rest of the bone and it's a four-to-five centimetre into three centimetre size in the right side of the lower jaw that is completely removed and taken out.

"Then the tumour mass was given to the histopathology department, then finally we come to know that there was 526 teeth which were present in the entire sac."

The growth was identified as a compound composite odontoma.

Image: A photo and an x-ray of the mass containing the teeth were taken

In a similar case from 2014, 232 teeth were removed from the mouth of a Mumbai teen.