More than 10 years ago, a 19-year-old woman went to see doctors at the University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli in Italy and surprised the doctors.
In fact, a study from earlier literature revealed just five other similar cases, all of which were men, from the 1960s.
However, it is impossible to know how many people have been affected with this condition throughout history as there are so few recorded examples, doctors have had a hard time figuring out why this is. this happens.
Doctors were startled to find several eyelash-like hairs protruding from the soft tissues just behind the girl’s upper front teeth.
In this case, pathologists quickly found potential clues to explain why. Hormonal tests and ultrasound led to a diagnosis of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) , a condition associated with hormonal imbalances.
Girl’s syndrome can be a common consequence of this imbalance. But such atypical growth is usually restricted to parts of the body that have grown hair follicles such as the face, trunk, and limbs.
The hairs are surgically removed and after an oral treatment that helps to resolve the hormonal imbalance, the patient returns to a life without oral hair. For a while at least.
But six years later, the unnamed patient returned to the clinic. After stopping the hormone medication, her strange illness returned.
This time, the medical team didn’t just remove the hair, they had the opportunity to take a small piece of tissue for a closer look under the microscope.
A year later the girl’s condition continued to worsen, with hairs growing from various locations around her mouth.
While it’s hard to say for sure, the researchers suggest that since the mucosal tissues in the mouth are closely related to the tissues that make up our skin while we’re embryos, it’s not hard to imagine how hair cells could be activated in theory.
Unfortunately, there is currently no information on whether the patient will return to the medication as prescribed. Doctors are also not clear if the abnormality of the teeth has affected the girl’s health.