What causes open bite? not genetic but wrong tongue posture, consequently proper tongue posture can also expand the palate. Does ALF appliance actually expand at the sutures?

When looking at various types of malocclusion, class I, II, III, and how they all correlate with how the patient is posturing their tongue in the mouth… you begin to see just how much the tongue is the causal point of how our oral dentition is formed and maxilla shape & position which in effect makes up large portion of the facial appearance.

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Here is a pretty good before and after picture of a lady that changed her tongue posture resulting in facial changes after 2 years. In short, she resolved her tongue tie problem and did Myofunctional Therapy. (retraining of the oral muscles)

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It is interesting to see these different classification of facial shape, and my current area of research that shows just how intimately the shape of our faces are affected by our lifestyle.

Which face is most aesthetic?

I think most will look at the art and pick the top left, the oval shape as that appears most normal or least exotic.

But if you compare oval shape face to square shape face, which one has the more wider and horizontal mandible?

Which one has the more defined cheekbones?

I would argue that the square shape face has the best structure out of all facial shapes, and it is the one that chewed more than anybody else growing up.

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Forward head posture is becoming more common in the modern world.

Is there a connection to the rise in malocclusion?

Muscle tone affect resting posture.

For example, if you have strong muscles, the muscles hold up the spine much better.

Professional bodybuilders, Phil Heath vs. Kai Greene above.

They have so much muscle tone in the body that the body is held up like an action figure naturally & effortlessly. When we try to posture this way we have to put in effort, for example when trying to appear tough or big in certain situations, it takes effort to hold our bodies up in this way.

I have noticed the same thing with our jaw muscles. The more muscle tone I build in the jaw, the more my jaws are beginning to remain close more of the time.

It is estimated we now do 5% of the chewing our ancestors did causing us to drop our mouth more of the time, perhaps we are now doing 20% of the use with our bodies. so does this explain the change in body posture as well? from standing up nice and tall, to slouching more and more?

Above individual is quite skinny. Is the muscle in his body too weak to hold up his body properly?

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Above is a x-ray view of my current progress of reversing bicuspid extractions.

I have pretty much regained enough space on the bottom arch, as I have been in fixed braces with coil springs from the beginning.

Now the upper needs to catch up. I have almost enough space between the teeth, but there’s still not enough room for implants at the roots.

Notice how the roots are still not moved over.

Quite logically, body of teeth moves easier than getting the roots to move. My orthodontist is now putting in kinks in the wire to get more movement at the roots.

Its a bit hard to explain with words but I believe its a bit like this:

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Man takes picture of daughter for 14 years video, does it show possible effect of braces on lengthening face?

One of my readers showed me this time lapse video of a girl going from baby to 14 years old in 4 min. Apparently the father took records of his kids every week since they were born… some commitment.

It is a great opportunity to study facial development.

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I preach about tongue on the roof posture but are you doing it correctly? “tongue on the roof” but there’s more to it, for great facial change results.

If you are part of my membership, you already saw my explanation of it as I was learning this new tongue posture freshly taught by Mike Mew several weeks ago, but after testing it out for weeks I can say that there definitely is a right way and the wrong way to place your tongue on the roof of your mouth.

I feel it is important for everyone to know so I am now going to make a public post about it.

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White civilized man with small jaws. African tribal man with big jaws, wide dental arch.

It is not the genetics but what is happening to us right from birth in modern civilized society that is causing poor jaw development.

Science has found that genetic difference between different races of humans is surprisingly small, even between Caucasians and Africans.

However variations between individual facial skeletons taken from a single ‘civilized’ population are often large, making it more probably that it is the environment that effects jaw development.

Researcher found that deep bites occurred nine times more often in a sample of privileged Indian children than in their close relatives who were poor.

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A secret to effortless smile that most orthodontists don’t want you to know about.

Everyone thinks the secret to great smile is having straight teeth, but this is not true.

I went through traditional orthodontics where they straightened my teeth out but I was left dissatisfied with the results… so much so that I am going through it all over again for the second time to do it right this time.

Secret of Exquisite Smile

Do not believe the hype about orthodontics that say straight teeth will give you a great smile.

The secret to the greatest smile on planet earth is not how straight the teeth is but how forward it is in your the face.

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Is Homeoblock and DNA appliance for palate expansion legit? Here is what I think about these appliances after few years of palate expansion experience under my belt.

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Ready for the shocking truth about braces & orthodontics?

All orthodontic treatment is bad for the face.

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