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If you press your lower jaw bone (under your lower jaw bone you press up) hard enough to hurt, does it mean you broke the bone? please be specific.

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Dr. Eric Chevlen answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine - Oncology

Not necessarily: It usually takes a very significant blow to break the mandible (jaw bone). Tenderness on that bone when you push on it does not prove you broke it. Signs of a broken mandible include a "mis-fitting" of the teeth after the trauma which causes the fracture.

Answered 5/20/2014

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A member asked:

If you press your lower jaw bone (under your lower jaw bone you press up) hard enough to hurt, does it mean you broke the bone? please be specific.

A doctor has provided 1 answer

Dr. Eric Chevlen answered

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