Fangs very much! Student who was too embarrassed to smile due to his massive protruding tooth has it removed by dentists and is astonished to discover it's the longest in the world
A student who was too embarrassed to smile due to his massive protruding tooth was astonished when dentists discovered it was the longest human tooth in the world.
Urvil Patel, 18, has been given the Guinness World Record after he asked them to remove his 'elephant canine'.
When they yanked out his tooth they found it measured 3.67cm (1.44 in) – nearly double the average size.
The teenager's tooth beats the previous world record by just under 5mm.
Dentist Dr Jaimin Patel, who operated on the man in Vadodara, India, said: 'My patient approached me with a complaint of the cosmetic and aesthetic problem.
'The canine tooth was buccally placed. We performed the surgical extraction under local anesthesia and the procedure took nearly 30 minutes.
'A normal human teeth has an average length of 20mm. In this case, it was extremely big.
'I did the operation and went away home. It was only after I started looking up online, I figured that the tooth was the longest ever tooth extracted in the world.'
Dr Patel pulled out the tooth in February but he was only awarded the record this week.
'The most important thing is that Urvil is looking good aesthetically and he can go out and face the world now,' he said.
He said: 'I can now show my face to the world without being ashamed or ridiculed by people.'
The earlier record was held by Loo Hui Jing who had a tooth that measured 3.2cm extracted on April 6, 2009 by Dr Ng Lay Choo.
Credit: Daily mail
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