Watch how this young woman’s life was transformed after undergoing life-saving jaw surgery, which not only left her with a new look but with 33 screws in her mouth.
Lillian Roman from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, endured years of excruciating pain due to a rare degenerative joint disease that was literally eating away at her face.
Lillian told how many people presume that her pain was something she was born with or the result of an accident but it’s in fact something that just appeared overnight in her early teens.
She was finally 20 years old when she found the root of the problem and was diagnosed with idiopathic condylar resorption, which is a condition where the jaw joint slowly breaks down for no clear reason.
After a long two year wait, Lillian finally got her jaw surgery at the age of 22, although the path to a new life was a slow one, with recovery taking over a year.