A three-inch jawbreaker candy managed to live up to its name after causing a 19-year-old woman to literally break her jaw by trying to bite into it. Canadian student Javeria Wasim had seen videos of people biting into small jawbreaker candies, but she had never seen anyone successfully bite through a big three-inch jawbreaker, so she decided to try it. It turned out to be the worst decision of her life because she only managed to dent the outer layer of the hard candy when she felt a piercing pain in her lower jaw. The young woman’s friend then pointed out that one of her teeth was chipped and when Javeria checked it herself, she realized that another tooth felt wiggly when touched. At this point, the 19-year-old student could barely open her mouth without screaming in pain, so her friend called an ambulance. An X-ray later showed that the reason her tooth was wiggly was that she had fractured her mandible in two places trying to bite into the jawbreaker.

 

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“I used to have them as a little kid, I’ve seen videos of people biting into the small ones but I’d never seen anyone bite into the big ones,” Javeria told Kennedy News. “I bit into it and only made a hole and my jaw started to hurt. My friend looked over and said my tooth was chipped. It hurt bad, I was crying a lot when the ambulance came and everything was blurry.” 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. 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.