Great facial development is achieved with the tropic premise, in a nutshell the most important factor is the resting position of the tongue on the palate.
When the maxilla goes forwards and tongue posture is corrected, facial beauty becomes actualized.
The forward maxilla also creates the exquisite smile
What creates Julia Robert’s great smile?
One thing everyone can recognize is the wide palate, most people will agree that a wide palate or wide smile is an attractive trait.
Above is what is referred to as the lip line, where the lip is in relation to teeth & gums during a smile. Julia seems to have the perfect lip line. When she smiles big, the lip goes up to the line where the teeth extrude from the gums, showing the whole teeth but the lips are still covering the gums. People also note that this is also important for beautiful smile.
However what most people don’t realize is that all of the above traits of an attractive smile is a consequence of having forward placed maxilla.
So we should not be focused on straightening teeth in children.
The focus should be, How to get the jaws to develop forwards.
This is operating at the level of cause, Not Effect.
When the cause is treated, the various other symptoms (effect) take care of themselves.
http://cdc.net.au/orthotropics/
Notice how the gummy smile is reduced by removable appliance that expands the palate which encourages forward development of the jaw as well as correcting oral posture.
After extraction orthodontics I too showed too much gums when I smiled big, that has been resolved now as I expanded my palate, reopened the bicuspid spaces, and brought the teeth forwards as well as oral posture training. We want the jaws and teeth to come forwards for great smile, if they are down and back, the gums begins to show during a smile.
Straightening teeth for the sake of aligning the dental arch ignorant because at the end of the day the patients want a nice smile and an attractive face like Julia Roberts.
“My approach changed from just straightening teeth to helping children grow their jaws.” -Dr. Simon Wong
It goes without saying that the big difference in airway space makes a big difference in health. Moving the jaws forward is the only authentic cure for sleep apnea (treating the cause not symptom).
Notice the difference in the actual bone of the palate itself, how the palate arch came down and became more flat. This occurs as you expand with appliances and then tongue posture will take over and continue to change the bone. High palate is therefore a narrow palate caused by leaving the tongue low in the mouth at rest.
“It wasn’t until I started practicing Biobloc Orthotropics that I truly realised how significant a change was possible.” -Dr. Simon Wong
In children we see the most drastic changes occur quite rapidly because they are still growing, it gives us a good opportunity to see just how significant oral posture and jaw shape & placement can make on a face.
Within the Tropic Premise lies the answers to what makes a face attractive and healthy.
In 1 year there is significant difference in the jaw line, not only will the face turn out much better in looks as these children continue to grow into adults but the airway will be optimal. These are life changing results.
The Tropic Premise breaks down facial beauty as an science…
The Tropic Premise has the understanding that many facial features are at the effect of the soft tissues, thus every attractive or unattractive feature has its origin rooted in the person’s resting oral posture, oral function & muscle tone.
Does this mean there is no genetic predisposition towards attractive or ugly? Looking at our parents or grand parents may not serve as the best indicators of genetic vs. environment effect on the face as human life was already greatly altered by then from the hunter & gatherer days. Anthropology evidence suggests that the face is lengthening and becoming less broad which backs up the Tropic Premise.
This means we are lacking the reference of how a face is supposed to develop because we look to our parent and to our peers and all of us has had some cranial dystrophy, because we are all living in unnatural environments which normalizes our abnormal conditions.
Mike Mew illustrated in the above picture which soft tissues affect all the different bits of the face.
They are all important for aesthetics, but the front cheekbone in blue is particularly important for facial beauty. The red is the side cheekbones and the blue is the front cheekbones, It is the same bone but under the effect of different muscle. The side is affected by the masseter muscle and the front is theorized to be at the effect of the tongue posture.
Here is a girl (Shanina Shaik, Model) with excellent front cheekbones, the blue area. See how that portion bulges out, this is the the tongue resting on the upper palate, pushing everything up and out.
The front cheeks separates the average to above average in looks to the superb (super model) type of look.
“tongue is the seat of facial beauty”
Front Cheeks provide support for the eyes.
Does Shanina have forward developed maxilla? You bet.
All of these attractive traits are not exclusive to each other but inclusive.
The horizontal dimension of the lower jaw indicate great muscle tone (masseter muscle).
Shanina kept her mouth closed, lips sealed and tongue on the roof of her mouth through out childhood to now, holding that maxilla up.
Everything is not predetermined by genetics as popular wisdom tells us. To drive this point further, let’s take a look at 1 transformation that show proof contrary to popular belief that facial beauty can be changed and is at the effect of soft tissues.
There’s quite a lot of changes taking place for the girl above, both jaws were brought forwards and she was taught to keep her mouth closed, tongue on the roof and lips sealed. As the soft tissue was corrected, the bone was affected, particularly the tongue posture, it pushed out and gave rise to the front cheekbones producing a 3D change in the face. Again the eyes changed as well.
It should be noted that one could have short wide face but still lack the front cheekbones, for example Keira Knightley, has the short square face but flat front cheeks, this indicates she rests her tongue low in the mouth even though she has great muscle tone to hold the maxilla up, which saved her relatively good appearance, she is also slightly class III because of it. It is a fine balance between the masseter muscle and tongue posture.
which girl has the better tongue posture?
In Keira’s case, she is mostly muscle tone, you can almost see the outline of her mandible that is pronounced from the strong jaw muscle.
Natalie also has decent muscle tone although not as much as Keira but she’s got the better tongue posture giving her the fuller front cheek bones.
The Short & Wide Facial Structure is the Ideal
We forget that we all started off with short and wide facial proportions as children with wide set eyes and short nose, yet most adults have narrower, longer dimensions.
We equate this effect to consequence of aging or “growing into our adult face” that begun noticeably around puberty. But what if we were only observing the gradual effect of less than ideal oral posture & muscle tone on the face?
It may be more correct to state that Shanina Shaik, Natalie, Kiera simply maintained the short & wide proportions of childhood into adulthood, instead of genetics causing them to grow into this facial shape. The horizontal mandible indicate that they had the muscle tone to keep their mouth closed more than 21 hours a day that means all night long while they are sleeping. Unfortunately the trend is more and more kids are sleeping with their mouth open. One study found that small children in Industrialized countries leave their mouth open a worrying 80{ae022d2295c0485893c83c8425b5bfafafba893c2d19b1bb9bc4c7c9bf3eeba6} of the time.
The fact is there is only so much skull bone. The surprising thing is that total mass of the skull can remain relatively the same but the shapes can differ greatly. As the face drops down the horizontal and 3D dimensions are sacrificed.
Human body is pretty remarkable, when the mandible expands in growing children, it expands by dis-positional growth, meaning osteoblasts (cells responsible by bone synthesis) begins building bone outer portion of the mandible while osteoclasts (cells responsible for bone breakdown) begins removing bone from the inner portion, thus effectively making the mandible wider gradually.
Now how does the body know to keep the correct thickness of the mandible? There is obviously intelligence guiding these cells, and both osteoblast and osteoclasts are working in unison with information that is shared between them. This is where modern science has taught us that genetics is at play here, laying the blueprint for the body shape, where everything is suppose to go, what shape its suppose to take on, etc.
There is no doubt that genetics do play a role but there is a dynamic relationship with environment at play that most are not aware of which culminates into the final product, the adult human face. Can anyone truly prove genetics play a role in facial beauty?
Genetics or whatever the intelligence that produced our bodies also has compensatory mechanisms. When the jaw is left open and the force of gravity begins to pull the jaws down and back, osteoblast and osteoclast is also at play here responding to the new forces and remodeling the bone accordingly which is taking away the 3D development to increase the vertical dimensions, causing the flat cheekbones. & The mandible remodels into a different shape so it doesn’t impede the airway which is also fascinating.
This suggests that bone remodeling occurs both by genetic and environmental instigation.
To understand how to get better cheekbones is to understand the cause of great cheekbones or lack of.
If you believe the cause is entirely genetics then the only option is cheek implants. & You may run the risk of fiddling with effects and further causing disharmony in the facial balance. Also the problem with these plastic surgeries is that the root problem is never resolved so the face continues to dystrophy (get worse) over time, thus requiring more surgery and soon you are trading in your face for a mask.
However if the cause is environment specifically the environment we have control over which is the long term forces exerted by our soft tissues, then you possibly have more options.
Proper swallowing and Proper Tongue Posture is crucial in developing children. And it seems to also have effects for adults, albeit we’re talking about slow changes as I have observed for me in span of last 6 month, thus it is still very much unclear how far is possible.
One thing to understand, is that at the root of attractive face is the forward placed maxilla and its shape which gives rise to all of the attractive qualities like the full cheek bones. So it is bit misguided to believe putting implants in the cheeks alone will make the person attractive, when the maxilla position & shape has effects on pretty much the whole face like the eyes, nose, dental width, jaw line. Although they say that the top plastic surgeons of the world have figured out science to facial beauty and can externally manipulate all of the facial features to make someone beautiful, in my humble opinion it is still a pale reflection of the true natural beauties like Shanina Shaik that has the optimal bone structure & dimensions. Such things like the facial width and distance between the eyes can not be touched by a plastic surgeon.
Jaw advancement surgery is the other option, yet I have seen very wide spectrum of results with this approach, some impressive and others not so. The impressive ones were mostly very severe cases of cranial dystrophy where the patient became more or less normal looking. Some results I seen out there seems questionable. Some are decent compared to before picture, but the horizontal dimension is still inadequate compared to the more ideal human faces like some of the models have.
Which begs the question how can we really trust a surgeon to determine exactly how far they should take the maxilla forwards? Should they move it up as well? There is just a lot of variable to this to have any comfort in handing over the whole responsibility to 1 man with some credentials. And after surgery the position is pinned, I suppose one would have to remove the pins once the bone heals which I heard is possible. And there’s other complications like severing of the nerves and loss of feeling. Yet it is still an option available to people none the less and its validity will vary depending on individual situation. Just know that there is much different consequences at hand in surgical approaches and great deal of discernment is required.
I’d argue that the tongue is creating change in all directions to produce 3D changes in the shape of the maxilla itself while jaw advancement is a change in 1 direction. With the tongue its almost like its pushing the bone out in all direction from the inside. This is an effect that mere jaw surgery cannot reproduce. This could explain why you see the big change in facial appearance and the jaw only came forward mere millimeters, because there is change happening in other directions.
also relapse from surgery is 60{ae022d2295c0485893c83c8425b5bfafafba893c2d19b1bb9bc4c7c9bf3eeba6} and higher, because again the root cause has to be addressed which is the Tropic Premise. Mouth shut and tongue on the roof with lips sealed.
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Hi CP,
Do you think adults can experience the same level of change as children? I understand that it might take longer because the bone has stopped growing, but do you think that it is still possible to achieve the maximum palatal expansion and growth of the maxilla? How much change have you noticed on yourself and are there any cases of significant changes in adults, that you know of?
Thank for your posts.
Victoria
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Change is possible in adults, how far we can go as adults is yet unknown. I have noticed changes but its not to the levels of change as seen in some of those kids yet.. but things continue to change with posture & enough dedication because bone remodels according to long term forces
Hi ^^ I am in my late twenties, and since practising propre tongue posture and swallow, I can definitely say that my lower arch had widened, it used to be curved inwards (if it makes sense) and now the curve is almost even.
I didn’t notice widening of my upper arch, but my eyes are much less droopy, so I guess my maxilla has moved upwards a bit.
But in my experience, it’s VERY important to keep a good posture no matter what. Because I practiced correct tongue posture and swallow with poor posture for almost five months, and it didn’t do much for my face, and the swallowing didn’t feel much different from my previous swallowing pattern.
But for two months now, I’ve added correct posture to my routine (keeping the back of my neck long) and I notice that in this position, the proper swallow is much harder to achieve, and that it provides a very strong force that pushed my whole upper skull upwards and forward.
I have been gone for two weeks, and when I got back, my boyfriend commented that my whole face changed a lot, he doesn’t even know that I’m doing this. So I guess even adults can get results, but I’m not sure to what extent yet.
thank you for sharing, yea I have noticed that to getting the head up right over your shoulders seems to produce different forces
Do you have a before and after picture?
Hello thanks for your comment. What do you mean by keep the back of your neck long? So facing down when you swallow? Thanks.
Awesome post, CP.
How much would you say nasal breathing contributes to the prominent cheekbones? Obviously with good tongue posture one will automatically breathe through the nose. Just wondering if maybe the air flow does something to the maxillary sinus that may make the cheekbones more forward.
I believe its more to do with having the tongue up on the roof which requires that one nasal breathes.
Always appreciate your posts CP. Been following your blog for about a month now, and I’m seeing very notable changes already, as I’ve been a mouth breather my entire life. Thanks, you rock.
hi cp, which is better, the front teeth touching or the back? my jaw at rest is kind of like an overbite, where only my molars can meet and not my front teeth. so i have been place my tongue on my roof while having my molars meet for about 4 months and have seen no results. is the touching the problem?
keep the back teeth together and get the lips sealed, and good head / body posture as well, by lifting the head by the back of the head (tucking the chin). Make sure you are keeping your mouth closed at least 20 hours this means they must not fall open during sleep. For this you need to increase muscle tone via chewing mastiha gum
Hi Cp,
First of all, thanks for all your work and for sharing it with us.
So I read your reply to Jane, and I’ve the same problem as her but their is the thing :
Have the tip of my tongue just behind my front teeth and at the same time my back teeth sealed is impossible because of my overbite plus when I let my front teeth meet and my tongue up in the palate, it’s simply impossible to make the molars met because of the width of my tongue (like my tongue is too large for my palate).
What do you think is better to do ?
For information : i’ve suck my thumb a lot when I was a child,
And I have an pretty large and muscular jaws due to intense bruxism and heavy chewing but I think a let my mouth open a lot when I was playing video games and when I was playing football (so nearly 5-6 hours per day for maybe 5 years).
By the way i’m 18
Again thanks for all your job and have a good day 😉
start with what is most comfortable / natural position when you close your mouth, and then raise the tongue up and get the lips sealed. The bite should level over time if you keep up the good closed mouth posture whatever way is easiest for you.
Ok, thank you I already find the good posture i’m going to adopt
I would like a video or toutorial aobut correct swallowing, because i dont understand it very well.
Keep up an amazing work !
Cheers from Poland.
check out the videos here: http://claimingpower.com/properswallowing/
Hi cp, I was wondering about the orthotropic treatment that Mike Mew offers? What does it consist of? Is it the same as what you advise? (e.g tongue posture, correct swallow)
I’ve been keeping my tongue at the top of my mouth recently (all of it), as well as chewing hard gum and swallowing correctly. Is there anything else I should be doing? I’m a bit unsure of whether my teeth should be touching or not in resting mouth posture? Any advice you could offer would be greatly appreciated!
True orthotropic treatment is designed for children ages 8-12 that is still rapidly growly, it is ultimately a growth guidance system where they create massive open bite and bring the front teeth really up and forwards in the face, and then force the child to close the jaw in that new position 24/7, this causes the face to remodel forwards overtime. This is believed to be too drastic to do on adults as bone is less elastic like in children, so much slower process is required for adults. Of course oral training is crucial in kids and adults, but orthotropics basically has appliance that helps with expansion, taking teeth and jaws forwards, and locking in the jaws shut.
I’d try to keep the teeth in light contact all the time with tongue on the roof. You should also try to maintain upright body posture and good head posture over your shoulders, no slouching. Build muscle tone in the jaws. and try to keep closed mouth posture all day and night and you will begin to see changes.
CP I would like to know if you’re seeing faster results using the comfrey cream on your face.
I’m excited about the idea to speed results of proper oral posture *-*
I am using it but it is still much too early to tell a difference
Found this article really interesting, thanks. Was just wondering Keira Knightley the other day, and why she has slight malaccusion despite her impressively square, wide face, which you answered here. I notice she appears to have a slight underbite or jutting of the lower jaw when she is speaking, which I guess is probably due to the low tongue posture also. . . I am really curious as to how someone eating (as far as we know) a standard english/western diet, develops the level of jaw tone of someone like Keira Knightley though!
Hi Lucky,
A while ago, some showbiz article pointed out that she grinds her teeth a lot in some of her movies and they posted a few clips of her doing it. Not sure if she just does it whilst playing a character or if it’s a real habit of hers. I’d love to have a shorter, squarer face after orthodontics ruined mine but all that teeth clenching would give me a headache!
teeth clenching is also a sign of tongue too low in the mouth, the tongue needs to be up pushing against the upper palate to balance the jaw closing muscle, so to hear Kiera might be clenching is not a suprise
yes that is what I meant by “she is slightly class III” which is underbite, people that posture their tongue low will also posture their lower jaw slightly forwards to get the back volume of the tongue out of the airway space. Some people for varied reasons seem to develop a knack for chewing hard things or constantly firing their masseter muscle, when the tongue posture is low this can lead to clenching (not ideal but its better than never using the masseter and letting the jaw hang open.
i love this website. everything one need to know about facial beauty. i’ve been expanding my maxilla for 2 months now, and i truly see results. CP, i am trying to reopen my extraction space, but my appliance isnt doing it so well. how did you custom your appliance to reopen the extraction space?
Maybe that’s part of her secret then! It’s probably a real habit, as I’ve noticed the level of mouth hanging open actors do on screen generally matches their level of horizontal/vertical facial growth. For most people their oral posture habits are unconcious. You could improve your jaw tone and increase horizontal growth of your face by chewing hard gum daily. There is a recent article about that on this site, mastika gum is the one recommended. Better jaw tone also contributes to pushing the maxilla back up and forward. I am suprised (and pleased) at the level of results I’ve seen from this in less than 3 weeks, building up to 2 hrs a day. It should be combined with proper oral posture throughout the rest of the day, obviously.
Good to hear that you’re seeing results! I’ve been chewing mastic gum for an hour a day for three weeks and trying to keep my tongue on the roof of my mouth, but I have narrow arches and it’s hard to get the back of my tongue on the soft palate…I’ll keep trying though. Thank goodness that CP has put all this info on this site as it gives us hope that we can all have better functioning faces with time, hopefully. (Thanks CP!)
That makes sense. I need to learn what the different macocclusion classes mean. I think the singer Ciara is similar then in terms of very square short face structure, and great jaw tone, but slight class 3 malocclusion poss also from low tongue posture. Thinking of a different case, what could cause someone to have a too far forward and long grown chin, who also has great bone structure, great muscle tone to the jaw and keeps their mouth shut. . .? Is this also a low tongue effect, or there isn’t just one single cause. . .?
the cause is almost always oral posture. what do you mean by too far forward, whats too far forward? if you have examples that would help. if the face is not short & square with horizontal lower jaw, there has been cranial facial dystrophy, but the way we dystrophy differ from person to person depending on few different ways people adopt altered oral posture.
By different causes I was actually thinking of the swallow, because you mentioned the effect of improper swallow lengthening the chin tip in a post of Rosie Huntington Whitley. If you think of a witches chin, protruding from the face in a pointy way, but on a pretty short square face, no underbite. I can’t think of any celebrity examples of the top of my head, I’m thinking of someone I know.
I did 5 mm expansion with a Schwartz expander. Now my upper palate if very unstable. I wear the Schwartz in my upper palate without turning the screw any more because if I take it out within only 2 or 3 hours it goes back in tight. Once I stopped wearing it for 48 hours and lost 1/2 mm in width in that short time. When I take it out and hold by tongue against the upper palate from front to back and side to side it makes the collapse happen even faster. So after 15 minutes of proper tongue position my expander goes back in tight. I was expecting just the opposite. So while I agree with your opinions about proper tongue position and swallowing I’m having trouble finding a way to make the transition to using the tongue to keep my maxilla wide instead of the Schwartz as a retainer. Any ideas?
if you just expanded, its better to leave appliance in and let the bones solidify first before taking it out. I’d give at least a month with appliance in.
Hi Lamy,
thank you for sharing this! Sounds very encouraging. As soon as I corrected my posture, I could really feel the tongue support much stronger. Wow.
It was surprising to read that your lower arch is showing much more results than the upper, because the upper one is getting the outwards pushing forces from the tongue. I have a very curvy lower arch and I’ve thought it’ll take years to see anything happening to it!
And what do you think of the Olsen twins? As grown-ups they look very well: their jaws seem to have grown horizontally; their cheeks are high and not flat… What do you think?
yes they developed well, however I think one of the twins began to dystrophy at late age
lol what a coincidence, i was looking at pictures of them recently and I also noticed that one of the twins doesnt look as good as the other. The eye shape is different as well.
I guess its just genetics.
lol jks obvi.
If anyone knows an orthodontist/dentist in Hong Kong that is open to this, please let me know! Thanks!
Hi Mike,
First of all I love the concept of orthotropics and as a 17 year old male still developing, I’m hoping correct tongue posture and swallow will positively impact my face. I have one question though, you consistently mention practicing the sweep swallow and correct posture but in the end, this is how you should always be swallowing, correct? I was hoping for you to clarify that the sweep swallow and tongue at the roof of mouth should be utilized 24 hrs/day, not just as an exercise.
the exercises are there to train the posture, posture should be 24/7
ps this is not Mike’s blog
I’ve been doing the tongue posture, and I think I’m getting slight headaches from it. Is that normal, or am I maybe pressing with my tongue too hard? Thanks
I used to get headaches and teeth aches when I started applying correct oral posture (now it’s mostly just ‘nose aches.’) I think it’s normal to have to go through some achiness and soreness with facial/skull bone remodelling.
Along side the correct toungue positon and correct swallowing technique and chewing… how about resting you chin on you hand and kind of pushing upwards. Could this add an extra upwards pressure In the right direction ? I’ve noticed when I do it that the muscles under my chin are challenged because they’re so tight. It’s almost like THEY’RE exercabating the downward pull on the jaw also.
Another technique would be to hook the thumbs under the lower jaw, on each side, second finders placed under the chin, and push upwards from there.
What do you think? Can it help? (or hinder?) adult jaw reshaping.
only light, long term forces are known to change bone which comes from posture, what you are describing is short term which bones resist, or else our jaws would be changing everytime we chewed for a long time.
but try it out and see
Hey CP,
I’m in my late 20’s. I have a very small mouth, small teeth, and thin lips. I just want my jaw widen and get fuller lips. Will correct tongue posture help me any? I know you said it might be effective for adults, but I just want a more chiseled jaw and hollow cheeks.
Thanks
all those aspects of the face you speak of are affected by what I am blogging about, to what extent you can affect change is up to the individual and we’re still exploring this ourselves
I’m a 20 year old male and have mouth-breathed my entire life. I’m not unattractive but do have a baby-faced look due to underdeveloped maxilla and vertically-developed chin. Neither are too extreme and could probably be corrected with surgery if I wanted. I was always kind of a late bloomer and im wondering how much this could affect my face in the coming years. Obviously I’m not expecting immediate, drastic results like these kids, but I’m not that far out of my teenage body so with proper posture, do you think these results are achievable within maybe 4 or 5 years? Any precedent for how much it could change at my age?
Your results could depend on a lot of factors, so there’s no way to predict what you’ll see over a specific timeframe. If you combine 2 hrs daily mastika gum chewing daily with correct oral posture posture, you may see significant changes in less than several years though. Hard chewing will improve your jaw tone, and influence mandible to swing further forward, and these changes also aid overall horizontal growth. I saw enough change after 2 1/2 months of gum chewing for my mum (and others) to tell me my face was a completely different shape.
I was wondering these changes would change for better or worse? Is there any possibility that it could get worse ?
Oral posture and chewing could either have little to no effect, or help your face to start to re-model more horizontally, but it couldn’t increase the degree of vertical growth you have. Most adults on the forum seem to have seen positive changes from these 2 methods, including myself. The only thing that that has become ‘worse’ is my teeth have moved a bit, and I have seen crookedness increase slightly on the top and bottom arches, although my smile has broadened from upper arch widening, which is a positive effect. I don’t think teeth moving to less aligned positions is a usual effect though, Mike Mew has seen the opposite effect in himself. Possibly it would have happened regardless of chewing and posture, because I no long wearing a retainer at night.
Hi as ive been getting older my cheek bones have been getting flatter and flatter, jaw longer and narrow, i also have a deviated septum that i am getting fixed. While im trying to keep my tongue on the roof of my mouth, i have a very narrow palate arch and its hard to keep the back of my tongue there. How do I fix this to prevent this to ensure my face wont get worse. Please help! james
Hi I have an underbite and I been currently wearing braces for the past nine months since January 2015. The braces been helping but idk if I should get the jaw surgery or not. Ive been keeping my tongue at the roof of my mouth since July and been seeing amazing results. But its very uncomfortable to keep my teeth close because it stress out my jaws.
I was thinking about getting upper jaw surgery to improve my side profile and continue to keep my proper tongue posture and proper swallow to see more improvements.I’m considering getting the procedure in January but I’m still very unsure, I’m 17 by the way. My question to you is do you think its best If I get the upper jaw surgery and continue to improve or naturally wait?And also will my tongue posture and proper swallow naturally fix my side profile naturally without the surgery? Thanks 🙂
My facial shape is similar to Keira Knightley. I have a strong masseter muscle but flat maxilla and my eyes protrude and have a droopy shape. I was wondering if there was a way to move my maxilla higher and forward but not make my jaw muscles any stronger. It seems to affect my eyes as I have bags and droopiness and my eyes protrude and look tired. I am 26 years old.
Hi had a jaw surgery , moving both jaws back because I had extremely protruding upper teeth. I had surgery at 29 years of age, 21 years ago. I was not happy with the initial shock of difficulty in speaking because my maxila became too small for my tongue. Besides every other thing like eating ,swallowing , kissing became very awkward . Also my lips became way narrower and smaller after the op. All these became too much for me after the OP that I became depressed and actually attempted suicide once. I have since found myself in a better place emotionally because I chose not to let it beat me plus family support helped.
The surgeon referred me to a speech therapist shortly after surgery , who thought my speech was not impaired. But after 21 years I still feel like my tongue is in the wrong place in my mouth, I feel like my palate is inside my mouth. I find it difficult to pronounce ‘T’ and ‘S’ because my tongue is too close to my palate. I am 52 now but there isn’t a day that this does not affect me . However I want to enjoy the rest of my life with my 2 children and husband.
Pls advise about any exercise that can at least maybe widen my maxila to allow more room for my tongue so as to feel more comfortable and speak better.
So sorry for lengthy story.
Hi cp, i am a male of age 19years and 7 months. I wanted to know that can I reshape my maxilla. I have a good jaw not that wide though. I had slight gaps between my teeth for which i got braces 6 months ago. My right cheekbone is slightly more prominent than the left. How can i fix this and also make my jaw a little wider in order to make my face look strong. Are there any devices that can help me achieve this?
Thanks in advance
Devices can definitely help but the problem is, no one has made the ultimate device that you can just leave on your face or head overnight in order to form a better skull.
I am waiting for the right device because ultimately its gradual pressure that will shape your face/skull.
Devices such as the crane or reverse facemax is out there but I don’t know how much it can do bc it is limited to one area. So it seems.
Claiming Power, if you may please direct us to a better face appliance that can reshape the skull over time that would be appreciated.