I consulted with an ortho who wanted to fit me with a FAGGA appliance. I wouldn't do any appliance unless I first established that the ortho really r...

@darkindigo: Agree that Mew should put in more disclaimers. I think he describes the problem well, but is maybe too insistent that his correction me...

@sinned: I dont know that my technique is the problem. I think it's more to do with anatomical particulars. The irony is that we cannot see what we...

I've already incorporated the basic mewing practices, but have also been hard mewing a bit there and there. As of a week ago, i have some pain in my ...

Hmm, it all seems rather speculative. Most of the experts say tongue moves bone. Did you create that GIF? In the interest of first do no harm, I'm...

Met with the ENT. He said he's never seen a deviated septum correct after maxilla/palate expansion therapy. But he did not elaborate, and did not se...

Steven Park on septoplasty: Complications are rare, but with any surgical procedure, there is a small chance of infection or bleeding. There is also a...

Anyone had a nasal endoscopy? ENT wants to do one as part of standard initial consult. I try to avoid MDs and their fixation with invasive procedure...

@ LastQuestion... thanks for the reply. I think the Ortho is more concerned about the bone spur, and in combination with the deviated setpum. The Ort...

Yes most practitioners latch on to a limited number of interventions. Re: braces vs RPE, not sure what you mean, as these have completely different ob...

You mean the ortho? He didnt recommend any exercises yet, but did suggest I read Oxygen Advantage (am reading it already, coincidentally). He also re...

So you think if pharyngeal airway is relatively spacious, palate expanders are not needed or are overkill? I have quite narrow palate, so would think...

Seems like possible chicken and egg thing... did deviated septum contribute to CFD, or did CFD cause deviated septum. Sounds like the latter for you...

Bit concerned as conventional MDs tend to be aggressive and like to do invasive things. Plus i have no leads on finding good ENTs, and the ortho is o...

The ENT has the bad Yelp reviews.

Found out i have an MCA of 300mm. At least according to one orthodontist. But my nasal airway has problems.

For me the main limiting factor in getting posterior third up to palate seems to be anatomical rather than postural. But then since I cannot see what...

@Sclera: Yes I see no reason not to strive for good head posture, but just based on how hard mewing feels for me, my head would have to be in a prett...

I'd think driving the tongue into the palate is going to have some beneficial effects even without ideal head posture.

I try to get as much of the back of the tongue up as I can, dunno how much is getting up there, nor whether I am doing it right. I have such a high f...

What's wrong with rolling the tongue?

I eat a lot of grass fed ghee. Has a lot going for it... K, A, E, D, CLA, butyric acid.

Seems it is easy enough to get K2 from food or food-based supplements, and personally I dont like to screw with high dose isolates, which to me are de...

If I attach posterior third of tongue to hard palate, I cannot breathe either... thru mouth or nose. This is most apparent when I do a proper swallow...

Guilleminault also made an appearance at my pre-study consult. He handled me kind of like a lab specimen, and also said things that implied the study...

Re: MCA, i only received a CD with an .exe file, and no way to view it. Will ask my dentist's office if they can open it and check MCA or other measu...

Lot of interesting ideas and musings. Will have to re-read. I agree that anatomy and clinical symptoms should be main thing, and lab testing should ...

@darkindigo: I dont know my MCA. How did you get this? The dentist who ordered and interpreted my cone beam scan did not quantify my airway, she ju...

@ LastQuestion: Yes agree the system constrains docs. Still docs who work in that system both profit from it and perpetuate it. I've done a lot in t...

Re: Stanford, the sleep study itself was fine, but the docs added little or nothing of value. They showed little or no interest in getting to the bot...

@LastQuestiom: Thanks for the reply. My study was done at Stanford and did include testing for UARS (my general doc did not order UARS monitoring, b...

Aren't both of those things true of most or all appliances that are tooth-anchored rather than bone-anchored? Saw in another thread some comments abo...

I just consulted with a dentist in my area (San Jose, California) who recommended FAGGA for me. Should said DNA would be second best, as it's bulkier...

Just read article again. Isn't this a very different approach from Mewing and other maxilla-driven approaches since it starts with putting the mandib...

Mainly looking for someone to do comprehensive eval and suggest a plan. Assuming I need an appliance for palate expansion and maxilla redevelopment, ...

Some of the people in the study have heinous gaps between upper front teeth post-expansion. Dumb question... will this be closed with traditional bra...

Also, I dont understand how anyone can achieve a good overall result with Mewing and without an ortho. If I improved my skeletal occlusion substantia...

Thanks, that is a good article. The orthodontist (Dwight Jennings) referenced in many of the links at the end of the article is about an hour from me...

Raw celery is a good suggestion (from one of the above threads). BTW, any thoughts on whether chewing tough foods or Falim/Mastic gum might worsen exi...

Is there some trick to seeing a posterior tongue tie in an adult?

I am the embodiment of chronic physiological stress. However I have never had issues with blood pressure or blood sugar.

I have a deep palate, and getting the tongue up there is a struggle. Also I have mild tongue tie which seems to be another limiting factor.

Thanks that definitely helps. Will be interesting to see what he says about hard mewing.

I'm halfway thru the book "Six Foot Tiger, Three Foot Cage" by Felix Liao, and he seems to be suggesting that double arch appliances stimulate stem ce...

I have had same realization over past couple years, starting after reading the Weston Price book. Intellect, athletic performance, mental health, phy...

So is the consensus (if there is a consensus) of this group that Mewing, and associated postural corrections, should be considered the central method ...

Apollo: Thanks, I did not consider that the mandible could just swing upward to align with an expanded maxilla, in terms of forward expansion. I tho...

ben, Thanks for the info. I read the Jamo thread. Nothing about the mandible specifically but lot of of great info nonetheless. The Occlivion thing...

But wouldn't there need to be some direct action on the mandible to make this happen... whether from the tongue or an appliance?