Hey guys,

I have known about mewing since I was 15, however I was never able to get used to it,

as it was very hard for me to do, because I have been mouth breathing while sleeping for 

a long time of my childhood. Due to that I have a strong overbite and very recessed chin. I had braces during the age of 13-16, but now I am only wearing fixed retainers on my bottom 6 teeth.

The thing is that I have been jutting my lower jaw forward for years, which does help my profile view a lot, because if i bite my back teeth together my lower jaw is even more recessed and it just looks like a bird tbh. Thats why my front teeth slighty touch, however my back teeth do not due to strong overbite.

My questions:

1) Do you think the fixed retainers behind my bottom 6 lower teeth hinder the mewing process?

2) Did anybody else looked kinda worse while mewing, because when I am, the fat around the hyoid bone kinda gets pushed out which does not look good, so will this get away or how do i avoid it?

3) Do you think it's a problem to be kinda jutting (overbite: front teeth slighty touching each other, back teeth do not/bottom teeth pushed slighty more forward than) and mewing at the same time? 

4) Is there anything else besides proper tongue position/swallowing to bring my lower jaw/mandible forward? I have already tried face pulling with a belt and hand good results (lower jaw went slightly forward) with it but they mostly only lasted for 1-2 days and the effort was quite hard (~30x30seconds forward/upward belt pulling a day)

Thank you for who ever took their time to read this!

I am very happy to see that the discussions around "mewing" have developed into a bigger audience,

as I remember it being quite unpopular some years back.