New Jersey woman, 21, gets her jaw stuck wide open after YAWNING too hard - and ... trends now
A woman yawned so hard that her jaw became physically locked open, sending her to the ER where doctors had to manually shut it.
Jenna Sinatra, 21, from New Jersey, suffered the freak accident this week, just days before her birthday, and documented her trip to the hospital in a now-viral TikTok video.
Doctors told her that she dislocated her jaw, which caused the joints responsible for her mouth opening and closing to become locked in place. This prevented her from closing her mouth all the way.
The injury, which lasted for several hours, took doctors four hours to fix by giving her muscle relaxing medications and 'shoving' her jaw back together.
'Only something like this would happen to me,' she wrote in the caption of the video, which has been viewed 7.4 million times.
Jenna Sinatra, 21, posted a series of TikTok videos after her jaw became stuck open from yawning. It took doctors four hours to 'manually' shut her mouth
Ms Sinatra, an influencer with 2.3 million TikTok followers, got her jaw stuck open just days before her 21st birthday
Dr Anthony Youn, a plastic surgeon in Michigan, stitched Ms Sinatra's video and described the phenomenon as 'open lock,' which leaves the jaw 'literally stuck open.'
'This is very rare, but when it occurs, it often happens after somebody does a big yawn,' he said in his response, which got 3.2 million views.
