It’s not life-threatening. We do dental emergencies and that something we’d tread in-office over the weekend and have a couple of our doctors come in to handle. The mandible break is problematic, but our doctors are trained for that. We’ve reconstructed mandibles after gunshot wounds. Takes a long time, but doable. At least all of his bone is still there.
I see a distinct pattern of the mouthpiece in the impact point. I’m leaning more and more to a fall injury. We’ve seen them before where someone had something in their mouth and broke out teeth and part of the mandible hitting the ground, especially in children with bicycle and motocross injuries.
Still not an explosion. Not enough burn injury anywhere.
Thank you for that explanation. Makes sense.