Doctors Remove Tooth Stuck in Man’s Ear for 33 Years

Doctors finally discovered the cause of a 47-year-old man’s ear pain and constant ear infections, which has been plaguing him since he was a teenager.

Stephen Hirst, who lives in the U.K., had a tooth stuck in his ear, The Star reported.

“It’s a mystery how it got there,” Hirst said. “I would think it’s a first tooth, looking at it, because it can’t be big enough to be an adult tooth. I think it’s a bottom tooth, one of the front incisors.”

Hirst said he was often in so much pain, he would “scream” in agony, and he has been to countless doctors trying to figure out what the problem was. Doctors at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England told him they were determined to find the problem and offer a solution.

“The nurse put a suction tube in my ear and cleaned it, then (tried) a microscope probe,” Hirst said. “Finally, she used some tweezers and got it out.”

Hirst said his ear pain is gone for the first time since he was 14.

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