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Protruding jaw
Protruding jaw is a facial feature in which a person's jaw (usually the lower jaw) appears larger and sticks out forwards somewhat, in comparison to the average person of the same racial/ethnic group. Facial features can be familial (passed from parent to child), or they can sometimes be due to a medical condition.
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A 48-year old asked:
Have a protruding jaw?
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A 30-year old asked:
What are the risks of correcting a protruding jaw?
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A 35-year old asked:
I had an operation to correct a protruding jaw, now my teeth are causing me huge problems. Help?
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A 44-year old asked:
Would i need to do something about my protruding upper jaw in the future?
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A 41-year old asked:
Jaw surgery to correct a protruding lower jaw, what should I expect during recovery phase?
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A 21-year old female asked:
Can invisalign be used for retreatment of protruding lower jaw. The 1st lower premolar needs to be extracted and the space filled. Class 3 bite. ?
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A 42-year old asked:
Why is my jaw bone protruding so much?
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A 29-year old male asked:
I feel i might have TMJ. Left side of jaw goes lower and bone of left is protruding more and pops when opened. I feel very minimal pain and i can eat normally. I feel like jaw on left hits soft tissue.I will see specialist soon. Can i stay like this?
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A 24-year old male asked:
My neck is lordosis and my head is protruding how can I have normal posture.Thank you in advance?
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A 31-year old male asked:
I fell form my truck & banged my head on the ground now i struggle to lift my head up & my neck muscles are protruding?
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A 19-year old female asked:
I bit the inside of my cheek and the skin is sticking out a bit , it hurts to move my jaw . Is there any remedies or anything I can do to relieve the pain and heal it ?
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A 60-year old asked:
My wife has this growth on top of her head which looks as if its brain tissue protruding from a tiny hole in her skull. What is this?
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A 21-year old male asked:
I have a protruding vein in the back of my head and severe migraines all day everyday after my accident. I was ejected from vehicle between 80-100mph?
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A member asked:
On bottom inside jaw I have s bone growth sticking up under bottom of the gums its pretty big and feel it with my tougnue why? It looks to be like a bone on bottom jaw sticking out atleast 3in up touching my bottom of tongue seems to be growing what can
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A 24-year old female asked:
What helps stop muscle spasms in the neck as a result of whiplash/ slight protruding disc? The spasms in my neck scare me and I feel like they make my head move slightly, though when I ask people if they saw my head move during a spasm they say no?
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A female asked:
I have a lump that seems like bone that is protruding out and its red and when touched it hurts. Its at the head area behind the ear.
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A 22-year old female asked:
Can your jaw bone end up sticking out of your gums after having a wisdom tooth pulled...?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I was scratched by a nail sticking out of a fence on the side of my head. It looked like a clean nail but im still worried about tetanus.
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A female asked:
I was in a car accident and I got over 40 stitches inside and out of my head and I think that I see one of the dissolvable stitches sticking out of my?
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A 23-year old male asked:
The head of my penis is not sticking out it is just the foreskin is that normal? I'm uncircumcised
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A 27-year old male asked:
What would cause a portion of the medial head (about an inch wide) of the gastrocnemius to feel like it is sticking out? From behind knee + descending
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A 25-year old female asked:
I have something hard type extra part proturding on my head since 5-6 year.Im very worried bcoz one of my friend told me that this can be tumour?
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A 46-year old female asked:
Sharp pain when i touch top bone sticking out of my shoulder and it hurts to move arm over head and other ways?
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A 17-year old male asked:
My penis head, where the frenulum is located has a weird lump sticking out. Also that my foreskin is staying halfway at the head of the skin.
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A 23-year old female asked:
I hit my head a few months back on a nail sticking out in my attic. I'm 24 got my tetanus shot at 12 should I be worried? I don't remember bleeding
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A 39-year old male asked:
Ihad a cyst on the back of my head cut open to drain by doc. Today i notice a lump of skin sticking out that looks like blood but its skin. What is it?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I hit my head a few months back on a nail sticking out in my attic. I'm 24 got my tetanus shot at 12 should I be worried? I don't remember bleeding . Wouldn't I have symptoms I'm scared already of tetanus if I was going to get it
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A member asked:
Right ear itches or tickles on outside of head especially the little flap sticking out in front. Do not use shampoo, use only ivory soap for shampoo, seems to help, other shampoo makes really bad. Only right ear
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A 37-year old female asked:
If my friend has traumatic brain damage but she can cry move your head from side to side following you throughout the room breathe on her own respond by blinking twice or sticking out her tongue and she's breathing on her own what state is that?
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A 43-year old female asked:
Hi. I am over 40 with a crossbite and lower protruding jaw. Recently I have been having headaches at night and feel uncomfortable placing my head on pillow. Will mouth guards help at night. Thanks?
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