5 million Americans every year reportedly Getting your wisdom teeth out. Aesthetic dentistry associates, complications occur only in approximately 8.4% of cases. TikTok user Anna Walters (@anna.walter13) was one of them. She revealed in a TikTok slideshow that has been viewed 178,000 times that her wisdom tooth extraction broke her jaw.
The first photo on the slide shows the content creator in a car, on the verge of tears. “Getting my wisdom teeth out,” she says in a text overlay.
And in the second photo, she continued: Her second photo is an X-ray of her. It shows that she has a large fracture in her jaw.
Walters also shared a photo of her sitting with an IV in her arm. Having broken her jaw, she[had] I ended up having another surgery,” she said.
Her last slide features a diagram illustrating the purpose of the surgery. To make matters worse, she says, “I can’t chew and have to spend six weeks on a liquid diet.”
Walters never revealed the dental clinic where she had the surgery.
The Daily Dot reached out to Walters via Instagram direct message and TikTok comments.
How does a dentist break a patient’s jaw during surgery?
according to Spetasus Buist, if a dentist uses the wrong technique or uses too much force when extracting a tooth, they can fracture the patient’s jaw. Signs of a jaw fracture are “severe pain, swelling, and difficulty opening your mouth.” In such cases, the patient must see a doctor and possibly undergo surgery. The surgery involves “closing the jaw with wire for proper healing or using a splint to stabilize the fracture.”
Viewers are now afraid of having their wisdom teeth removed.
“Another reason why I don’t delete my stuff,” one viewer wrote.
“Oh they showed me the paperwork on the possibility of removing my stuff and that was it. I walked away,” commented a second.
Another viewer asked Walters for more information about the incident. “Did they know they broke it when the incident happened? Or did they have to wake up and realize something was wrong?” they asked.
Walters responded in the comments section: “Twelve days after I went to another dentist saying something wasn’t right, he said no and everything was healing perfectly. So the other dentist took a 3D x-ray and found out that my jaw I could see it was broken (lol).
The Internet is a mess, but we’re here to break it down for you in one email each day. Sign up for the Daily Dot’s web_crawlr newsletter here and get the best (and worst) of the Internet delivered straight to your inbox.
*First published: May 22, 2024 at 7am CDT
melody held
Melody Held is a culture writer. Her work has been published in Glitter Magazine, BUST Magazine, and more.
