First case of teeth growing out of an eye socket—what you need to know about 'ectopic teeth'

A 16-year-old boy in India has had a tooth removed from his left eye socket, between the eyelid and the eyebrow. He had noticed a painless swelling for about a month but was only taken to a hospital when two hard, whitish points began poking through. A scan revealed a fully formed canine tooth—an extremely unusual example of an ectopic tooth.

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