By Vanessa Chalmers Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 16:39 GMT, 22 February 2019 | Updated: 16:40 GMT, 22 February 2019
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A 59-year-old man had a tooth growing in his nostril because of a rare condition which left him with a blocked nose for two years.
The strange growth, called an intranasal retained tooth, can be caused by physical damage or development problems but doctors couldn't explain this case.
After doing scans and investigations to try and work out what the growth was, doctors removed it during surgery and discovered it was an entire tooth.
A 59-year-old man had a tooth growing in his nose in an extremely rare condition that left him with a blocked nose for two years. When a tumour was removed from his sinuses and sent for investigations, it was revealed there was a tooth inside (pictured)
The view through the nasal passage before removal of the solid mass
Growing a tooth in the nostril is rare and thought to affect somewhere between 0.1 per cent and one per cent of the
