This ‘impacted tooth’ isn’t a tooth at all

The diagnosis was like pulling teeth
X-ray

This giant salivary stone was the spitting image of an impacted tooth on examination and X-ray, duping both dentists and doctors.

The 37-year-old patient had been experiencing acute, intermittent pain in the right side of his lower jaw and diffuse swelling when he was referred by a private dentist to an oral surgeon.