Does having jaw implants present a danger in the case of a high-impact injury (such as a car accident, getting punched)?

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Doctors have said that you should only worry about a jaw implant breaking if you were involved in a high-impact injury, in which, your jaw would also have broken even if you didn't have an implant. In the case of a high-impact injury, such as a car accident, would having a jaw implant make the injury worse? I can imagine the implant's fractured pieces to cause more damage to adjacent facial features, viz. would EMS have more difficulty in treating someone in a car accident with a jaw implant?

Thomas Romo, III, MD · Answer

Chin implants and other implants along the upper and lower jaw are used very commonly and in many thousands of cases, have been shown to be stable and safe. The implants don't intrinsically make the facial bones weaker and the probability of someone having severe blunt trauma to the face is rare. An argument could be made that the implants could have a protective effect on the bones at the time of trauma and are usually then easy to remove.

Barry L. Eppley, MD, DMD · Answer

It is exactly the opposite....a jaw implant provides protection to the jawline like a bumper on a car. It is adding a shatterproof layer n top of bone that can break.

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