Wednesday, February 8, 2017

About THE Girl With No Jaw

Hi! My name is Teal and I am making this blog in hopes of finding other fellow jaw prob peops out there who are freaked out and need someone to relate to. I feel your pain. Some of the stuff I read in the Facebook groups I joined and blogs I read scarred me for life, but a lot of it also prepared me mentally and emotionally for what is ahead. 

I am currently 22, about to turn 23 in March. I have adult braces and acne so basically I am a 22 year old trapped inside a 17 year old's body.  I recently graduated from San Diego State University in May 2016. I am starting a company with my brother called VendiBean and it is my life/ baby and I am so thankful for it. 

Rewind to when I was 10 years old.... I was at a friends house and had a genius idea of saran wrapping myself to my friend back to back.  I was standing in the front and we started walking down a narrow hallway in her house. Of course we completely lost our balance but, with our arms stuck under the saran wrap, I couldn't break our fall and ended up slamming onto the tile floor jaw first.

Fast forward 10 years later... I have already gotten braces, had a perfect bite and everything was jolly. Until my freshman year of college I went to bite down on my nail and realized I physically couldn't because my bite was completely shifted!!!  Side note - I was the girl in high school/ college who was legit OCD about wearing her retainers- So I was completely flabbergasted by what was going on and didn't understand. I went to this jaw doctor who took X-Rays and told me the left side of my jaw was super under developed and looked like the size of a 10 year old's jaw. This was only the beginning... My bite was barely an open bite at this point and over the span of 3 years my bite turned into a 4mm open bite. Doc told me what I have is called ICR (idiopathic Condylar Resorption). I don't think I have ever cried so much in my life haha. Not only was I in excruciating jaw pain during this period but I was developing a lisp from having an open bite, couldn't bite down into food properly anymore and I learned that I had to eventually get braces and jaw surgery to fix this mess. 

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