Doctors uncover disgusting find in man’s unbearably blocked nose
Zhang Binsheng, 30, went to the doctors after struggling to breathe for the last three months. His symptoms were so severe that he could not sleep properly at night and reported smelling “decay” out of one nostril.
The doctors advised him to undergo an X-ray, where a shadow of ‘high density’ material was uncovered at the back of his nasal cavity.
Zhang was left stunned when medics explained that it was his own tooth.
“(It) looked a lot like a tooth,” Dr Bai Zhibang, a deputy director at the hospital’s ear, nose and throat department, told Pear Video.
The tooth had been knocked out of Zhang’s mouth when he fell from the fourth floor of a mall at the age of ten and had managed to root and grow in his nasal cavity.
This means that the tooth had been growing in Zhang’s nose for the last twenty years.
Doctor Guo Longmei explained that the reason that the body hadn’t rejected the tooth was because it was Zhangs and not a ‘foreign object’.
The tooth measured at 1cm and was removed from Zhang’s nose in a 30-minute surgery. He is said to be recovering well.
According to Metro, having a tooth growing inside your nose is considered to be rare, with less than 0.1 per cent of the population likely to be affected.