The effect of tongue appliance on the maxilla in Class III malocclusion due to maxillary deficiency

“Various treatment approaches are applied for correction of CL III malocclusion due to maxillary deficiency. However, the benefits of a simple intraoral appliance that can move the maxilla in forward position have not been reported. 25 Cl III patients with SNA < 78 degrees, SNB < or = 80 degrees and ANB < or = 0 were selected for this study. All the patients received a tongue appliance, which originally was a habit breaker. Pre- and post-treatment cephalometric images were obtained and paired t-test revealed significant increase in SNA and significant decrease in IMPA. The tongue appliance can move the Maxilla in forward position. Therefore, this simple appliance can be an alternative method for protraction of Maxilla.”

source:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19835181

Adjusting the correct tongue posture in the mouth may be the single most important thing to attaining a more attractive face. Even as adults…

Horizontal Growth

The Key to Facial Beauty and Optimal Patient Health

“All evidence supports the concept that forward growth of the face produces the most attractive faces.”

“The driving force for the forward growth of the face is the tongue. Gram for gram the tongue is the strongest muscle in the body. It has been calculated that it can produce 500 grams of force against the anterior teeth. This force needs to be directed up and forward into the anterior part of the upper jaw in order to:

1.create the correct shape and size of the upper jaw with room for all the adult teeth.

2.drive the forward or horizontal growth of the face.”

Go here for full article: http://www.jfdental.com/pdf/article-horizontal-growth.pdf

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With all of my research I have done on this subject facial growth and development, I have found that the key is the forward growth of the maxilla.

With no exception, every profile picture of models / actors / actresses reveal this very forward position of the maxilla (upper and lower jaw) within the cranium.

What causes this optimal forward growth as children, is the the tongue, nature’s natural palate expander and face pulling device.

The skulls found of the ancient man before westernization reveal this same structure, which shows that there has been a deviation from the ideal. Now a days virtually most of the population is affected, and we blame genetics for good looks or lack of, but is it really? Dr. Mike Mew states that current orthodontists use a standard of the human profile measurement that was taken in the 1960’s but even that standard that orthodontists use today on children is NOT the ideal measurement found in the ancient man and of course the models and actors/actresses. This means that in this modern culture less than ideal structure has become the norm and the ideal structure, which was common in our ancestors, has become the minority now chucked off as someone having “good genetics”.

It is not good genetics that determine this 3D, forward position of the maxilla, horizontal jaw structure, but more and more I’m finding that it is the relationship of the muscles in the face that determines this forward guided growth.

In children developing nasal breathing, lips together at rest, tongue on the roof of mouth,proper swallowing, and no mouth breathing becomes the most important thing for child’s health and growth. What if we are already adults? well it has been shown, that when an adult develops conditions like muscle dystrophy or they have a stroke and lose control of the muscle in the face, that adult gets gross changes in the bone structure of the face/jaws where the control of the muscles were lost. this goes to show that the bones are a lot more moldable than one would think and muscles are what’s shaping these bones in nature.

Is it still possible as adults to get this forward growth if we re-train the tongue and utilize the tongue to create forward pressure within the palate? thus causing forward displacement of the maxilla and new forward bone growth?

This is my new area of exploration.

The effect of tongue appliance on the maxilla in Class III malocclusion due to maxillary deficiency

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