9-year-old boy has strange symptoms, up to 300 teeth

A rare story happened to a boy living in the Philippines when the boy was found to have 300 teeth in his mouth.

Most of us, when we grow up, have to go through the process of replacing baby teeth into permanent teeth. But that process is the opposite of the case of Johncris Carl Quirante, living in Barangay Looc, Dumanjog, Cebu, Philippines.

Little Johncris Carl Quirante has up to 300 teeth in his mouth.

The number of milk teeth of Quirante has increased steadily since the age of two. Normal children will have about 20 baby teeth at this stage. However with Quirante it is different. The boy then owned up to 50 milk teeth.

Due to disapproval of family conditions, Quirante was not taken to the dentist for medical examination. But until 5 years old and the number of teeth reached 150, Quirante was able to go for X-ray examination and imaging.

Snapshot of the terrible number of Quirante teeth.

Quirante's condition continued to deteriorate after 4 years. And now he had 300 teeth crowded in his mouth.
Recently, Quirante has undergone a 40-tooth extraction operation. The surgery was successful and Quirante was recovering.

Unfortunately, Quirante will have to undergo at least 7 more surgeries to have a normal tooth. It is expected that it will take up to 4 years to complete these surgeries.

40 teeth were extracted after surgery.

Despite his strange illness, Quirante still attended school quite well and achieved excellent academic achievement. Quirante is currently in grade 4 and dreams of becoming an engineer. The homeroom teacher evaluated the boy as one of the best students of the school.

It is known that Quirante suffers from a strange disease called Hyperdontia . However, Hyperdontia incidence accounts for only 1-4% of the world's population and occurs mostly in men. Researchers believe that the disease is largely affected by habitat and can be inherited .