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TAIPEI (AFP) Taiwanese dentists have urged fast food chains to drop over-sized hamburgers from their menus following a growing number of jaw injury cases, a report said Thursday.
Patients have developed sore jaws or had difficulties opening their mouths after consuming giant burgers, the China Post quoted professor Hsu Ming-lung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University as saying.
Problems can arise when fast-food fans tuck into hamburgers larger than eight centimetres (three inches) high, Hsu said according to the paper.
A human mouth is designed to gape over objects measuring up to four centimetres, and overextending can hurt the joint between the jawbone and the temporal bone in front of the ears, Hsu said.
is it just me, or is a 3 inch high burger not all that big? are people's mouths that much smaller in taiwan? has anyone been injured this way in america? i couldn't find stats on it. it's got to be a major issue there if the dentists are griping to the restaurants. i wasn't even aware they were such big burger fans.
Patients have developed sore jaws or had difficulties opening their mouths after consuming giant burgers, the China Post quoted professor Hsu Ming-lung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University as saying.
Problems can arise when fast-food fans tuck into hamburgers larger than eight centimetres (three inches) high, Hsu said according to the paper.
A human mouth is designed to gape over objects measuring up to four centimetres, and overextending can hurt the joint between the jawbone and the temporal bone in front of the ears, Hsu said.
is it just me, or is a 3 inch high burger not all that big? are people's mouths that much smaller in taiwan? has anyone been injured this way in america? i couldn't find stats on it. it's got to be a major issue there if the dentists are griping to the restaurants. i wasn't even aware they were such big burger fans.
