A three-inch jawbreaker candy lived up to its notorious name by causing a 19-year-old woman to literally break her jaw while attempting to bite into it.
Canadian student Javeria Wasim had watched videos of people biting small jawbreaker candies but had never seen anyone try it with the larger, three-inch variety. Deciding to test her limits, she bit into the hard candy, only to experience sharp pain in her lower jaw.
Her friend noticed that one of her teeth was chipped, and upon further inspection, Javeria found another tooth was loose. Unable to open her mouth without excruciating pain, she was rushed to the hospital, where X-rays revealed that her jaw was fractured in two places.
“I had eaten them as a kid and seen people attempt to bite the small ones in videos, but never the big ones,” Javeria told Kennedy News. “When I tried, I barely made a dent, and my jaw started hurting. My friend pointed out the chipped tooth, and everything became a blur as the pain worsened.”
The young woman was rushed into surgery to have her broken jaw set back into place and then wired shut using a metal wire inserted into her top and bottom gums.
She will have to live with the wire for six weeks, but she will then have to wear braces to fix the wiggly bottom tooth on top of her jaw fracture as well as the front teeth, which have separated.
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The student has been on an all-liquid diet of shakes and soups since the incident and says that she constantly thinks about eating solid food again. The experience made her think about how important a person’s mouth is and how stupidly she managed to damage it.
“It was such a stupid thing, people break their jaws in car accidents and fights, this was such an avoidable way to break your jaw,” Javeria said.
