Posted by: AloeVera

This thread is about the Dorsal Hump on the nose

The below question is based on the idea that a dorsal hump on the nose is caused by the face growing downwards

Does mewing change the dorsal hump? i.e will the tip of the nose move upwards to create a straight bridge on the nose, therefore removing the dorsal hump?

Anyone know?

 

 

It can be genetic and/or caused by maxilla drop.  Mewing was invented by Dr. John Mew.  Look him up.  Look at his face.  You tell me if it works for adults.  He says it doesn't.  He says it's for kids.

I will say this, though.. I was messing around with my nose.. kind of pulled it down.  Do not do this.. not sure why.  I'm just exceptionally curious.  So, my nose is kind of looking funny.  I try and push it up a bit.  What do you know... I'm pushing 40 and I can still kind of push my nose around.  I can even try and raise my whole maxilla by pushing up with my hand.  The thing is... the ramux length doesn't change, so it could cause TMD.  I know that if the root underlying cause can be detected (potential tongue tie?) then it can at least be understood.  I don't know much about leforte...   I haven't looked into what it is or what it means.  Okay, I just did.  Seems to be a popular thing for maxillary placement.   High levels of relapse.  Is the relapse is from the same factors that caused the problems in the beginning? 

Posted by: AloeVera

This thread is about the Dorsal Hump on the nose

The below question is based on the idea that a dorsal hump on the nose is caused by the face growing downwards

Does mewing change the dorsal hump? i.e will the tip of the nose move upwards to create a straight bridge on the nose, therefore removing the dorsal hump?

Anyone know?

 

 

I think this is the case. At least for me.

A way to verify this is to feel the soft tissue around your brow ridge. If it's fairly saggy and it's possible to get larger, more open and higher looking eye sockets from raising your eyebrows, then that probably means that the lack of support around your maxilla is dragging everything down.

In other words...the dropped maxilla increases the tension on the soft tissue longitudinally. That causes the "big forehead" (or perhaps more appropriately, long forehead) because the soft tissue sits lower at the brow elongating it. This carries on to the nose, giving the droop, or a somewhat "big" looking nose too (the elongated forehead caused by drooping tissue will make the bridge look higher than it really is...the tissue is obscuring the true origin of the nose, and if it could be tightened up, it would have the affect of visually lowering the bridge of the nose down). Additionally, the stretching contributes to flatten out the mid face too and the lower jaw ends up a bit bulky because the excess tissue has to gather somewhere (probably resulting in a poorly defined jaw line).

The question I haven't asked myself so far is this:

If we could somehow convince the soft tissue to go back to it's proper position (say by wearing an appliance of some sort over night), would that aid in our attempts to fix our bone structure?

Surely the stretched tissue isn't performing at it's best, because it's subject to a subtle flattening affect, which I would imagine would restrict blood flow to some degree?

I don't have the answers to any of that. Just some observations and a desire to fix my deficiencies! 

I regularly see people with excellently developed jaws who have a dorsal hump. I also regularly see people with very receded jaws who have small, straight noses. So I think the idea that dorsal humps are always caused by downward growth, while having some degree of truth to it, is obviously not the full story.