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Comedian Hannah Berner reveals distressing side effect of TMJ treatment: Pray for me
This medical mishap is no laughing matter.Comedian Hannah Berner, 34, has revealed that after getting injections for jaw tension, she woke up to an unpleasant surprise: She couldn’t smile.Not because she was sad — she just physically could not pull he mouth into a grin.“Like joy, laughter is my life.
That’s all I care about,” she said in a TikTok video.“We’re gonna get through this.
Pray for me, I’ve turned to religion.Stay safe out there in these streets.”Berner said she got Dysport injections to alleviate tension in her temporomandibular joint, or TMJ.
The treatment is also done to slim the jawline and decrease teeth grinding.Dysport is a neurotoxin, like Botox, that temporarily blocks nerve signals to the masseter muscles, used for chewing at the side of the face and jawline.This reduces muscle contractions, eliminating chronic tightness and grinding.
Over time, it causes the muscle to weaken and shrink.This takes 6-8 weeks, and results last for up to 6 months.
The body will naturally break down the neurotoxin over those months.Though Dysport and Botox are used to treat TMJ tension, this is an off-label use — AKA not FDA-approved.And despite how common this is, there are risks.Injections could hit the wrong spot or spread, which is something Dysport is known to do.
The med is known to diffuse more widely compared to Botox, making it more useful for larger areas, and its effects may also appear sooner.But if it’s applied too close to the edge of the masseter muscle, it can spread to the risorius, also known as the smile muscle, a tiny muscle near the surface which sits just above the masseter.When Dysport reaches the risorius, it can’t contract or pull the mouth into a smile.This could result in an uneven or totally distorted smile.One study showed that about .15% of people who get this treatment could get smile limitations.If this happens, there’s not much a patient can do about it — they just have to wait several months befor...