Doctors at Hoan My Hospital in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province said on Wednesday that they had successfully removed an extra tooth from the nasal cavity of a patient who had suffered from headaches for years.

K.N., the 24-year-old patient from Dong Nai Province, was admitted to the hospital earlier this month with a serious headache in the temporal region of their forehead.

A CT scan showed that there was an anomaly in the patient's right nasal cavity.

Doctors at the hospital successfully performed a surgery to remove the anomaly from the patient on October 5, during which they realized that the anomaly was a two-centimeter extra tooth.  

Nguyen Thi Thanh Yen, a doctor in the ENT department at Hoan My Hospital, said that having an impacted tooth in the nasal cavity is quite rare.

The patient has been in stable condition since the surgery and her headache has subsided.

According to doctors, the tooth may have led to the patient forming a jaw cyst with irreversible maxillary bone loss had it not been removed.

Dr. Yen warned that people should have their health checked if they experience headaches, migraines, runny noses, and other symptoms in order to facilitate treatment.

People experiencing these symptoms should avoid self-medicating, which may cause the conditions to worsen.

Elaborating on her condition, N. said that she has suffered from headaches for a long time but thought they were normal or cerebral ischemia.

She had self-medicated with headache medicine for years.

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