Credit: SWNS / Izzy Sehon
A woman bullied for looking like a "squirrel" underwent $200k surgery to replace her jaw - with STOMACH fat in her face - and now says she feels "beautiful".
Izzy Sehon, 22, was two years old when her mum, Cherise Gerrard, 60, noticed her jaw wasn’t very pronounced and looked “different”.
At eight years old the issues started to progress, and Izzy suffered a lot of jaw and joint pain.
She went to countless orthodontists and has worn braces “about six times” in her life.
In June 2020, a doctor finally realised she had idiopathic condylar resorption (ICR) – a rare condition that causes the bones in your jaw to breakdown.
Izzy was told her face looked like “someone who had got blown up in war” as her TMG joint – the two joints which connect your lower jaw to your skull – was “non-existent”.
She underwent bilateral total jaw joint replacement surgery in February 2023 - which involved cutting her jaw in four places, removing her original jaw, and replacing it with custom made prosthetics.
A woman bullied for looking like a "squirrel" underwent $200k surgery to replace her jaw - with STOMACH fat in her face - and now says she feels "beautiful".
Izzy Sehon, 22, was two years old when her mum, Cherise Gerrard, 60, noticed her jaw wasn’t very pronounced and looked “different”.
At eight years old the issues started to progress, and Izzy suffered a lot of jaw and joint pain.
She went to countless orthodontists and has worn braces “about six times” in her life.
In June 2020, a doctor finally realised she had idiopathic condylar resorption (ICR) – a rare condition that causes the bones in your jaw to breakdown.
Izzy was told her face looked like “someone who had got blown up in war” as her TMG joint – the two joints which connect your lower jaw to your skull – was “non-existent”.
She underwent bilateral total jaw joint replacement surgery in February 2023 - which involved cutting her jaw in four places, removing her original jaw, and replacing it with custom made prosthetics.
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00:21 This is where they cut open everything and went through there, it's through the ears.
00:26 So I have it on both sides, the fade and the scars in the ears.
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00:37 They did a million scans, MRIs, everything to figure out, "Oh my god, you don't have
00:42 jaw joints, literally did not have joints.
00:45 Like all of you guys have these long L joints right here on the side of your face.
00:50 Mine were non-existent.
00:51 I didn't even know like how to react.
00:53 I was kind of in shock, I was like, "Okay."
00:56 Did they put metal in your mouth or in your face?
01:00 Yes, they did.
01:01 I don't know exactly which one.
01:02 I know it's titanium mixed with something else, but it's a prosthetic joint made especially
01:06 for my face.
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