Using epigentics to grow faces?

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I’ve found this website for someone who uses epigenetics to grow/remodel adult faces.

balanceepigeneticorthodontics.com

I don’t really know how I feel about it and i was wondering what you guys thought?

My reasons for being conflicted about it are:

The explanation I saw for how it works is very vague. I get that it has to be dumbed down, but I couldn’t find a detailed/more specific answer for how his appliance “activates a person’s naturally occurring genes to correct underdevelopment in the craniofacial region” when I dug deeper into his website.

To me, it all seems a bit too good to be true without a proper explanation, but when I look at the photos it really does look like their faces (specifically their lower jaws) have ‘grown’ a little. But then again, Idk if it seems to good to be true to me because I’m obviously not an epigeneticist, and maybe it’s angle/lighting which is making me think their faces have grown.

http://balanceepigeneticorthodontics.com/serices-3/growth-guidance-for-adults.html

I don’t know the safety of epigentic ‘therapy’. I.e if it triggers cell growth how can you be sure later down the line you won’t get uncontrolled cell growth? And how is the direction of growth controlled? Is there a limit to how much the bone can grow? (I’m not expecting answers to these questions btw aha, I’m just saying why I don’t know if I trust it)

Even though the results aren’t ‘major’ it does seem at least a tiny bit promising to me. If it is actually legit, it would be cool to see if mike mew and the practitioner for this work together. Idek if we could ‘grow’ the maxilla but if we could, would that have the same affect as ‘pushing’ the maxilla up and forwards. Can the maxilla even be pushed up and fowards?

Posted : 20/07/2018 11:59 am

The website you linked to has been referenced frequently here on the forum, especially in the FAGGA thread. It is the site for Dr. David Buck who has been in correspondence with TGW about the FAGGA appliance.

Dr. Buck uses the concept of epigenetics to explain how skeletal changes are possible in children and adults. Basically the epigenetic theory suggests that somehow the treatment is impacting transcription of genes, essentially turning on or off or regulating the expression of certain genes which code for proteins involved in the growth process. However, Dr. Buck and other practitioners who use the "epigenetic" marketing like the "DNA appliance," aren't giving their patients some magic pill that modifies gene expression, as your post seems to suggest. They are just using appliances like the FAGGA or palate expanders which rely on mechanical pressures like any other orthodontic treatment to signal for remodeling to occur. So yes, the force of the tongue, or appliances, or hormonal signaling from vitamins or growth factors might be working by up-regulating or down-regulating the expression of certain genes which can induce bone remodeling, but this is just a microscopic explanation for the process that any of our changes in facial form rely on.

Using epigentics to grow faces?

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