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The primary bone in your cheek is the zygomatic bone. This attaches along the cheek bone to the zygomatic process, and this is part of the temporal bone. Part of your cheek is also in the area of the maxilla and nearing the jaw is the mandible. This is all very general. There are many small fissures in these bones that are visible in a adult skull.

Broken bones take serveral weeks to heal. There are three steps.

During the first step a hematoma is formed around the broken pieces. A hematoma is a mass of clotted blood. This fills in the broken space in 6-8 hours.

The next thing to develop is a fibrocartilaginous callus. This stage continues for about 3 weeks where the bone has cartilage builidng up where bone will eventually grow.

Next osteoblasts create a bony callus of spongy bone in the place of the fibrocartilage. This stage lasts 3-4 months.

The last stage is remodeling where this temporary spongy bone is replaced with permanant compact bone.

Your mom will probably seem healed after several weeks, but the bones will take several months to become compact bone again.

The drs probably wanted to let the hematoma form to see how the bones are placed. They can be re set by a surgeon if they dont fall into a good spot. Usually with facial injuries a plastic surgeon is brought in, if the bones arent going to fall into a normal looking position.

I Hope she is feeling better!

sometimes you must be under dr. care because later on she could have problems from that breakage. I know I had bones in pelvic and ribs broken and 7 yrs later I hurt like crazy so tell her follow dr orders best thing to do.

3 weeks ago i broke my jaw in 3 places cuz i was jumped i just took some pain killers and put ice on it

like pease well work when theyre still in the bag

I broke my little toe yet there is not any longer something which would be performed. you in straight forward terms might desire to anticipate it to heal. i think of that any smash, no rely if taken care of or no longer, may finally end up in arthritis in the long-term.

I don't think there are three separate bones in your cheek. Ever see a skull?