Hello everyone,

I'm a class 2 occlusion. As a child, orthodontic treatment tried to enhance mandibular growth with elastics, it ended up luxating my 2 TMJ - and it took 2 years for doctors to discover what was causing my pain -.

Anyway, I became mouthbreather, tongue thruster,  and my teeth were so "outward" of my mouth I had to go back to braces again.

Here is the problem: since my problems with my TMJs, I have a crappy occlusion. I've been on multiple treatments for 3 years now to correct it. BUT, it is better now but still not satysfying, moreover I developped a really asymetrical mandible.

The end of my treatment approaching, I felt my occlusion went back to my molars only - no front occlusion. So, the orthodontist changed my braces to egress some lower teeth, it means to PROPULSE them upward, to create some upward bone growth in order for them to reach contact with upper teeth.

HOWEVER. I'm really skeptical about doing that. I know now that I have a recessed maxilla and my face grew longer since I'm a mouthbreather, so it makes sense that my occlusion SHOULDN'T be good. I'm actually scared that orthodontic corrects totally or almost totally my occlusion, with my maxilla and mandible still degenerated, and then when I'll correct occlusion and mew my way to regeneration, this bone growth negatively affects my progress. Like, how does the body know where to go if the occlusion is perfect, or hidden by symptomatic medecin ?

I thought about that, let me try to illustrate, sorry i've never been a good drawer hehe:

So, I'm really not sure and it could be weird idea coming from an anxious mind. Anyway, I know egression isn't a "natural way" to correct me, and if my hypothesis is wrong, it could still bring some problems that I don't know about right now. I really want to break off those braces from my teeth and to keep mewing night and day to victory without all this bullshit.

I was really curious about having your opinion on it and on teeth egression, if Mike Mew ever said anything about that. If you have any questions about my situation please ask. This braces have really stressed me a lot these last few days, so thanks a lot if you just share your opinion or prevent me to do some mistakes.