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News India Live, Digital Desk: Since childhood, we must all have heard a saying – “Tooth in the eye.” It means to have too much enmity or burning sensation from someone. But can you think that this saying can become a reality for anyone? Can a tooth come out inside someone’s eye really?

It is only after hearing that there is a strange wrinkle in the body, but in Patna, Bihar, doctors have shown a similar surprising act. Here, doctors at IGIMS Hospital have successfully evacuated a real teeth that has grown in the eye of a two and a half year old child.

This is not a film story, but a rare medical truth.

What was this whole matter?

A two and a half year old child from Munger district of Bihar was troubled by a strange problem of his eye. There was a white colored lump in his eye, which was gradually getting bigger. There was also difficulty in seeing the child. Troubled parents took their child and reached IGIMS Hospital in Patna.

When the doctors of the Department of Pediatric opthalmology (children’s eyes) department examined the child, they were also surprised. The lumps that appeared inside the eye were not a minor tumor, but a fully developed teeth inside it!

What is this rare disease?

This very rare situation in medical language Ocular teratoma Or Limbal dermoid They say. It is a kind of congenital tumor, in which the tissue (eg hair, bone, muscle or tooth) of other parts of the body develop into organs like the eye.

IGIMS doctors say that this disease occurs in millions. This case was also special because it is even more rare to find the entire tooth inside the tumor.

How did this miraculous operation?

A team of doctors led by Head of Department Dr. Nilesh Mohan carried out this difficult operation. This operation was very delicate, because even a little, the child’s eyesight could go forever. But the doctors very carefully took the tumor and the tooth inside it out of the child’s eye.

It is a matter of relief that the operation was completely successful and the child’s eyesight also survived. This case is a major achievement for the medical history of Patna IGIMS and Bihar. This once again proved that sometimes the things that we find only impossible in the proverbs, science also makes them true.