I see a lot of beginners here concerned more with chewing than tongue posture, which for someone with CFD, is what needs to be built and strengthened first.
When you focus on your tongue posture, you have much more conscious time during the day where you can make it better and better and consciously adopt this posture till it becomes natural, which can take a long time.
Especially for people with uneven bites such as myself, it's important to improve the upper jaw's basic shape and width so that you have an even bite, and maxilla's position becomes symmetrical. When you achieve that, now tough chewing is much more effective and will optimally and symmetrically improve your facial structure. Its near impossible to calibrate how much to chew on which side to have an effect that improves symmetry, there is no such problem with the tongue.
Chew only 30-60 minutes a day, in one session, with very tough gum or whatever elese you use for chewing. Probably some time before bed. Because it's the night time when you're prone to leave your mouth open due to muscle weakness. Rest of the day, focus on perfecting your oral posture and optimising your maxilla. This of course coupled with perfect neck and body posture throughout the day.
Mewing works, its just an incredible amount of hard work and dedication.
Good luck.
I agree. Chewing is very overrated in terms of how much needs to be done. More is not ideal. If our ancestors did chew, they probably did it in their once daily meal that came after a hunt. I doubt they spent 5 hours chewing on something just because lol
I have had good progress in my mandible width increase just from mewing alone. I barely chew. Besides, too much chewing can lead to jaw problems. Even with soft gum. IMO posture matters more for how aesthetic the jaw looks anyway. Swing a jaw upwards and it looks more defined just from that alone . No masseter hypertrophy needed.
Chew only 30-60 minutes a day, in one session, with very tough gum or whatever elese you use for chewing. Probably some time before bed. Because it's the night time when you're prone to leave your mouth open due to muscle weakness.
This depends on the balance between the resting tone of your tongue and masseters. If your masseters are more developed than your tongue, chewing in general can exacerbate sleep bruxism and clenching issues, but especially if you chew just before bed. So I think when and how much you chew depends on the strength of your tongue. The exercise intensity for the masseters and the tongue should be gradually increased in balance. As you strengthen the muscles of mastication, it allows the tongue to maintain more resting tone against the palate with the teeth in light contact, which will improve mewing results. Most people starting out don't have very strong tongues, so (as you say) they shouldn't focus too much on chewing until their tongue strength can offset the masseters. However, if you build up tongue strength alone without chewing, you are prone to find your jaw slacking.
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