So I've been Mewing hard for about 4 months and it's had some serious results including a noticeably less dark skin under the eyes and a substantial mandibular upswing of over 10 degrees.
I understand mechanistically what mewing accomplishes, but what does hard chewing accomplish other than masseter hypertrophy? Is constant hard chewing over a long period of time supposed to widen the mandible itself? I can see how it would increase the density of bone but what does it do to the actual morphology?
Dr. Mew talks about an inner and outer U-shape ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFkcLMmSJI ). "The inner U shape is determined by the tongue. The outer U shape is determined by the muscles of mastication." Mew believes that the resting position of the tongue and the resting muscle tone (and the balance of the antagonism between the tongue pushing the jaws apart while the masseters pull the jaws together) are more important than their absolute strength. There are articles on this forum about maintaining this balance to avoid dropping your mandible or buxism during sleep. So, the way I think about it, we are developing the tongue muscle to push up and forward on the maxilla, but without adequate resting muscle tone of the masseters, pushing up with the tongue just causes the mandible to drop down. Hard chewing develops the muscle tone to keep the teeth in light contact so that the force of the tongue goes toward pushing up on the maxilla rather than just swinging down the mandible.
This makes a lot of sense, seeing how the harder I mew, the more I can feel the masseters activating to counteract it.
Thanks for the detailed response.
Dr. Mew talks about an inner and outer U-shape ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFkcLMmSJI ). "The inner U shape is determined by the tongue. The outer U shape is determined by the muscles of mastication." Mew believes that the resting position of the tongue and the resting muscle tone (and the balance of the antagonism between the tongue pushing the jaws apart while the masseters pull the jaws together) are more important than their absolute strength. There are articles on this forum about maintaining this balance to avoid dropping your mandible or buxism during sleep. So, the way I think about it, we are developing the tongue muscle to push up and forward on the maxilla, but without adequate resting muscle tone of the masseters, pushing up with the tongue just causes the mandible to drop down. Hard chewing develops the muscle tone to keep the teeth in light contact so that the force of the tongue goes toward pushing up on the maxilla rather than just swinging down the mandible.
awesome explanation, helped me try to concentrate on the masseters for better results in feeling the whole dynamic
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