Medical Must-See: Doctors eye an ectopic tooth
The patient had experienced no trauma, reporting only a one-month history of upper-eyelid swelling.
It wasn’t hens’ teeth, but this ectopic canine poking through the medial third of the upper eyelid was still a very rare case.
The 16-year-old patient reported no pain, just swelling in the medial third of the upper eyelid that had lasted for about a month.
He had no history of trauma, his doctors wrote in the journal Ophthalmology.
But from the swelling had emerged two hard, well-defined projections reminiscent of a canine tooth — exactly what it was.
