A pediatric dentist, Dr. Osarugue Ota, says babies born with teeth or who grow teeth within 30 days of birth are normal and not related to witchcraft.
Ota, who works at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, told journalists during an online training session on Tuesday that there was nothing wrong with such babies.
Ota said that such teeth ought to come out at about six months after birth but came out earlier for whatever reasons.“The society also frowns at it, and some say the parents brought the child from the witchcraft kingdom. “We would check if the teeth are shaky; this means they are not well-formed and could actually be a risk to the child as they could cause injury to the infant’s tongue when nursing,’’ she said.
“To avoid such, we do a proper assessment and inform the parents that we will take out these teeth,” she said.
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