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 ave...