{"id":1003106,"date":"2022-02-24T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/new-york-doctors-remove-tooth-growing-inside-mans-nose\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T19:50:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:50:49","slug":"new-york-doctors-remove-tooth-growing-inside-mans-nose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/24\/new-york-doctors-remove-tooth-growing-inside-mans-nose\/","title":{"rendered":"New York doctors remove tooth growing inside man&#039;s nose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/New-York-doctors-remove-tooth-growing-inside-mans-nose.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Doctors at a New York hospital said a man who came in complaining of difficulty breathing through his right nostril was found to have a tooth growing in his nasal cavity.<\/p>\n<p>Drs. Sagar Khanna and Michael Turner, surgeons with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said in a case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that the 38-year-old man told doctors he had been having trouble breathing through his right nostril for several years.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Doctors discovered he had a deviated septum &#8212; a condition in which the partition between nasal passages is pushed to one side &#8212; and a rhinoscopy conducted with a small camera discovered the cause &#8212; a tooth growing on &#8220;the floor of the right nostril.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ectopic tooth, a term for a tooth growing in an abnormal place, was measured at about .6 inch long.<\/p>\n<p>The surgeons said they removed the tooth without complications, and the man reported during a follow-up visit three months after the procedure that he was able to breath normally through both nostrils.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212; Doctors at a New York hospital said a man who came in complaining of difficulty breathing through his right nostril was found to have a tooth growing in his nasal cavity. Drs. Sagar Khanna and Michael Turner, surgeons with the Mount Sinai Health System in New York, said in a case [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1003107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}