A routine dental visit in Taiwan led to a discovery that sounds almost impossible.<\/p>\n
A 36-year-old man visited a dentist because of pain caused by a severely decayed wisdom tooth.<\/p>\n
But when the tooth was examined and removed, the dentist noticed something extraordinary inside the damaged tooth.<\/p>\n
A tiny green sprout was growing directly from the cavity.<\/p>\n
The unusual growth was identified as a young guava plant. According to the published case report, the sprout was estimated to be approximately 10 days old at the time the tooth was extracted.<\/p>\n
The reported explanation was surprisingly simple.<\/p>\n
The man’s poor oral hygiene had allowed a guava seed to become trapped inside the open cavity of the decayed tooth. His corresponding lower tooth was also missing, meaning the seed could remain in place without being disturbed by normal chewing.<\/p>\n
The deeply recessed cavity apparently provided a sheltered environment where the seed could germinate.<\/p>\n
Saliva supplied constant moisture, while the naturally warm environment of the mouth provided a temperature close to body temperature. Food debris trapped around the damaged tooth may also have contributed nutrients and organic material.<\/p>\n
Over roughly 10 days, the seed reportedly germinated enough to produce a small visible sprout with leaves.<\/p>\n
Cases like this are extraordinarily rare, which is why the incident attracted attention beyond the dental clinic.<\/p>\n
The case was later reported in the British Dental Journal<\/em>, documenting the remarkable finding of a plant growing inside a human tooth.<\/p>\n While the idea of a plant growing in someone’s mouth sounds like something from a movie, the unusual dental case was actually documented in the medical literature.<\/p>\n It serves as a bizarre reminder of what can happen when food particles and foreign material become trapped inside a severely decayed tooth.<\/p>\n Imagine going to the dentist because your wisdom tooth hurts \u2014 and discovering that a tiny guava plant has been growing inside it. 😳🌱🦷<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A routine dental visit in Taiwan led to a discovery that sounds almost impossible. A 36-year-old man visited a dentist because of pain caused by a severely… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mdrssa_facebook_image":"","_mdrssa_unique_id":"","_mdrssa_normalized_url":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3668,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/3668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}