ONE 19-year-old woman in the UK has been left traumatised after finding out the hard way that jawbreaker lollies have their name for a reason - they can actually break your jaw.
Javeria Wasim recently bought a three-inch candy and because she could not wait to suck down into the gumball inside, she bit into it, chipping one tooth, and making the other wobbly.
An ambulance was called and Wasim went to hospital, where an X-ray and CT scan found that she had suffered two fractures in her jaw.
In fact, the wobbly tooth became loose because it was on top of the bone, which split.
After one hour in surgery, Wasim's jaw was finally put back in place and a bar was put in between her top and bottom gums, wiring it shut for several weeks.
However, even after the procedure, Wasim's wobbly tooth is now sideways, her front teeth have separated and she will need braces to fix her bottom teeth.
Wasim, who was forced to endure an all-liquid diet for several weeks, has a few words of wisdom for others out there with a sweet tooth:
"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," she told Metro.co.uk.
"It's better to take the six weeks to get through to it than having six weeks suffering the consequences of biting it and having your jaw wired shut."
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