World of the Bizarre

Student literally breaks her jaw after biting into jawbreaker candy

By T.K. Randall
December 28, 2024

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) Most people will have eaten (or attempted to eat) a jawbreaker at some point in their lives - a hard, spherical form of candy known for being particularly challenging to consume.

For 19-year-old Canadian student Javeria Wasim, however, the name 'jawbreaker' turned out to be a little too literal when she tucked into the three-inch sweet recently.

Hoping to crack the candy open, she bit down hard on it - which turned out to be a mistake.

Immediately, she felt an intense pain and quickly realized that one of her teeth had come loose.

After it became apparent that she could no longer open or close her mouth without experiencing severe pain, her friend called an ambulance and she was taken to a local hospital.There, an X-ray confirmed that the jawbreaker had in fact literally broken her jaw.

"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," she 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."

In the end, she had to undergo a surgical procedure to have her jaw set and then fixed in place with metal wire that will need to stay in for more than six weeks.

In the meantime, she is limited to consuming an all-liquid diet.

Source: Oddity Central

Tags: Candy