Taiwanese jaws overextended by giant burgers

An increase in jaw injuries has seen at least one Taiwanese dentist recommend that fast food chains to drop giant burgers from their menus.

Professor Hsu Ming-Iung of the School of Dentistry at National Yang-Ming University told the China Post that patients had sore jaws and in some cases had difficulty opening their mouths after eating burgers of unusual size. Hsu explained that the problem was with burgers that were more than eight centimeters high; the human jaw, it seems, was only meant for biting things of up to four centimeters in girth. Eating bigger burgers can lead to over-extension of the jaw and even damage the temporal bone in front of the ears.

I have probably consumed more than my fair share of burgers, many of which were over four centimeters high and a few that were probably bigger than eight centimeters. The trick is to approach it in stages and not try to fit the whole thing into your mouth at once. If giant burgers are to be pulled off the menu it should be because of the health damage that they cause, not because people haven’t figured out how to eat. [Image; News]