Doctors have extracted 232 teeth from the mouth of a 17-year old boy in Mumbai, in what they believe to be a world record, the India Times reports.
Ashik Gavai was brought into hospital in the city with a painful swelling in his mouth after local doctors failed to diagnose the cause.
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