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.
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.
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00:27It's a prosthetic joint made specially for my face.
00:57I drew out this quick little diagram to kind of show you like how everything works.
01:01So as you can see this is my before you can see the outline of where they like expected my face
01:06to be but my airway is so much bigger you can see my actual joint that they put in there which is
01:12so crazy from the before right before this um they brought my chin like up and back almost
01:20which is crazy I don't even question it. They broke my top jaw it's called the laforte
01:25in four different places that also includes my nasal cavity that's why you guys are seeing that
01:29my nose looks so different. Okay so this is my front view you can honestly see everything in
01:34this picture. Here on the side you can see are my new joints that's all the white areas
01:39the x's and all those that's all titanium that's holding my face together now like literally that's
01:45so crazy to me. Every time I look at this I'm like oh my goodness I couldn't be happier with
01:50the results because my teeth all touched for the first time.
02:20you