Girl Wedges Mouth Open By Yawing

Have you ever yawned so hard that you’ve dislocated your jaw? Holly has…

In rather rare case of what you might call self-inflicted injury, a young British girl was rushed to hospital after yawning so hard in class that she wedged her mouth permanently open. The incident happened during double lesson of Government and Politics – which probably says something about the poor girls interest in such matters – and as Gizmodo writer Sam Bidle quiet rightly points out, ‘you really can’t make this s**t up!’

Despite the tragic British humor (which can be excused as the clip was taken from a children’s program) this is quiet a hilarious story. Basically the young girl, named only as Holly, yawned so hard that she managed to dislocate her jaw and was unable to move it back into place. After a little deliberation with her class mate, they decided to ’interrupt’ the lesson to send Holly off to the school nurse. Bewildered at what had happened; the school nurse quickly referred Holly to the ER.

At the Northampton General hospital a rather unphased doctor by the name of, Dr.Ejiro Obakponovwe, recalled a rather novel approach known to work in such situations; wedge the mouth open until the jaw muscles eventual tire and loosen, then use a bit of good old elbow grease to click the poor girls mouth into place. And guess what gets used to hold open said mouth? The medical equivalent of a Popsicle stick, all 26 of them.

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