toni elliot , 53 , thought she had hurt a tooth when she sat for dinner at puckett 's boat house in franklin , tennessee , on thursday .
however , when spat out the mouthful she was chewing she discovered a pearl in the palm of her .
as naturally-occurring pearls are rare , it 's expected that elliot 's stash could have broken a record for the most pearls in one oyster but apparently the number stands somewhere in the eighties .