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The little girl yawns, but she can’t close her mouth, can’t drink water

A 13-year-old girl in Ho Chi Minh City, after yawning loudly, could not close her mouth, had to go to Children’s Hospital 1 for a checkup on April 14.

Master, doctor Dinh Thi Nhu Thao (Department of Odonto-Stomatology, Children’s Hospital 1, Ho Chi Minh City), said that when the baby finished yawning, he could not close his mouth, nor drink water.

The doctor examines the baby and finds out that the baby has temporomandibular joint dislocation both sides. The baby received emergency treatment to straighten the condyle to return to the normal functional position and fix the chin and head to be monitored within 1 hour.

According to Dr. Thao, the temporomandibular joint connects the lower jaw to the skull. We can feel the temporomandibular joints and their movement by placing our fingers directly in front of our ears and opening our mouths. What is being felt are the rounded tips of the mandible as they glide along the socket of the temporal bone.

Temporomandibular joint dislocation is the loss of the normal anatomical relationship between the mandibular condyle and the temporomandibular joint. If not treated in time, it can easily lead to stiffness and irreversible ligament stretching.

When the disease progresses, it will cause damage to the temporomandibular joint: damage to the temporomandibular joint, softening articular cartilage, then degenerate and can lead to temporomandibular joint fusion. At that time, the joint ends begin to degenerate, causing adhesion between the articular disc and the bone ends, which can lead to perforation of the articular disc.

Therefore, when parents discover that their child can’t close his mouth after yawning, opening wide, crying, etc., it is necessary to take the child to a hospital with a specialist in Odonto-Stomatology for timely examination and treatment.

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