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RE: TGW Progress

@admin What a great answer. The deeper I get in the more complex it all seems and quite beyond my ability to explain. I have long suspected that ortho...

3 years ago
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RE: Maxiallry facepulling but with MAGNETS (IDEA ONLY)

I like the idea of using magnets in theory because it could make an appliance pulse.

3 years ago
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RE: Sternum and clavicle posture

I think it is important and not just to facilitate Mewing, but because it’s always right.The whole shoulder girdle is important. Walk like a Cretan Sh...

3 years ago
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RE: Large neck = lack of recession

@ayla-mao There is something about that photo that is more than skinny. You can barely see his trapezius. I had a thick neck higher up- a large collar...

3 years ago
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RE: Large neck = lack of recession

I think it may work the other way round. I am also a counter example in that I have always had a thick neck. I find lifting weights a good exercise...

3 years ago
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RE: Ramus and airway

I think ramus thickness is affected by muscle mass but that length has to do with dental height. We tend to think of tipped in molars as being normal....

3 years ago
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RE: Theory: Language and Facial Form

I am not an Arabic speaker. My comment, rather flippant for one I meant seriously, was based on the sound in pronouncing Allah and generally overheari...

3 years ago
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RE: Uneven jaw development and possible solutions

@user919119 I think it is a holistic job. That your whole body has adapted to the changes in your jaw. That measurement of intermolar width will be d...

3 years ago
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RE: Uneven jaw development and possible solutions

Note also that my old fashioned language comes from the fact that I am old. I am over fifty. I have had many more years to get into a truly dreadful m...

3 years ago
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RE: Uneven jaw development and possible solutions

@eddiemoney I don’t think I have ever posted something with more typos. But it is urgent truth, in my view. I am appreciative of your response. You ar...

3 years ago
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RE: Uneven jaw development and possible solutions

Do not try to map the extent of your asymmetry. An accurate assessment will send you either mad or into the depths of despair. Surgey is something I w...

3 years ago
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RE: Are overbites really common in Britain?

We just differ on what morality means. You call it lifestyle and behaviour.

3 years ago
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RE: Are overbites really common in Britain?

The Tropic Premise suggests that facial development has a large moral element. Of course there are genetic determinants too. But if we compare British...

3 years ago
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RE: Involuntary facial muscles contraction ?

Not for sustained periods, but I think it sounds good, which you appear to also. Sometimes I think all the movement I achieve is involuntary and that ...

4 years ago
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RE: Great results found on reddit!!

Well if my thinking is right with the upswing they will appear less tipped out. All good.

4 years ago
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RE: Afraid to mew cause of receding gums

I have not read of people suffering dehiscence as a result of mewing. If your teeth are tipped in where there is recession of the gums, uprighting the...

4 years ago
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RE: Intermolar width - is this even possible?

I always understood that the measurement should be the narrowest point between the first molars. But I don’t think matters. We are not trying to achie...

4 years ago
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RE: Intermolar width - is this even possible?

Have you tried measuring again? It looks like your teeth have got narrower in the second which is both improbable and undesirable. Mewing progress in ...

4 years ago
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RE: Class 3, yet normal bite?

That explains a fair bit of the awkwardness to how you look in the pics. I am also astounded by what you have been told and more so by the proposed tr...

4 years ago
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RE: Maxillary development in a 70 year old is clinically proven

Remarkable result. It is rather wonderful to think that many may set to this work just for vanity and get solutions to problems they had not even iden...

4 years ago
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RE: Great results found on reddit!!

There is both a movement of the ramus forward from the ear and a rotation of the mandible that we call upswing but involves a lowering at the back. In...

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing is giving me LSD/Mushroom flashbacks

The feedback from body has been very important. Right from the beginning when there were few things other signs that I was achieving anything it told ...

4 years ago
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RE: I could not mew successfully until I broke this rule

I feel it more as a pulling back of the maxilla resulting in a static tongue feeling as if it is driving forward between the teeth. The downward sensa...

4 years ago
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RE: Achieving Face and Skull Symmetry in Adults

Yes. Beware chewing hard on an asymmetrical jaw. Check to see if when eating you have developed the habit of chewing on one side, or favour one side f...

4 years ago
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RE: I could not mew successfully until I broke this rule

It feels like pulling the back of the roof of your mouth back and down. It should not create contraction down into the throat though it is tightening ...

4 years ago
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RE: Achieving Face and Skull Symmetry in Adults

It is a difficult task but some improvement is in my opinion both possible and worthwhile. Mewing is the start. Getting your head straight on your sho...

4 years ago
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RE: What are the signs that the sutures are opening?

You can create this pull down effect by contraction of facial muscles around the nose when Mewing. The depressor septi and levator labii superioris at...

4 years ago
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RE: I could not mew successfully until I broke this rule

That one’s tongue should at sometime in the day occupy the lower arch to counteract the inward forces of the cheeks and lower lip. I thought the postu...

4 years ago
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RE: I could not mew successfully until I broke this rule

There is a lot to be gained from this. Also consider that this is not a game of finding the one perfect trick to rebuilding one’s mouth. A variety of ...

4 years ago
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RE: Great results found on reddit!!

Ronald Ead has not achieved his results through Mewing but through a succession of dramatic orthodontic treatments, some succesful some not.

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing is giving me LSD/Mushroom flashbacks

I could not say. I was interested to read about the ALF device and its aim to be part of a remedy for cranial sidebend in children. This is where the ...

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing is giving me LSD/Mushroom flashbacks

From time to time, and increasingly frequently as I progress, Mewing creates in me a continuous tone, much less sharp than night vision goggles, more ...

4 years ago
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RE: Theory: Language and Facial Form

I think conversion to Islam would be a good adjunct to Mewing. There seems to be a particularly strong emphasis on the “ll” sound in their chants. I r...

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing after using a palatal expander

It seems the short road is a cul de sac.

4 years ago
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RE: Great results found on reddit!!

It would be interesting to see photos of him in action rather than displaying results. Extreme chin tucking and hard mewing both sound as if they invo...

4 years ago
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RE: Been hearing these intense audible popping/cracking sounds by my right ear

I do not think most pops and cracks I get are necessarily movement. I suspect a few of the larger and more disconcerting ones are. I do however associ...

4 years ago
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RE: Resin on molars of shorter side jaw to improve symmetry?

Wouldn’t Mike Mew’s few reservations about Starecta apply all the more to your suggestion? If this is your problem I don’t think you should write off ...

4 years ago
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RE: Exercise to fix asymmetries

I have used exercises similar to those you have described, not specifically with the idea of fixing asymmetry but rather with the idea of finding new ...

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing lower palate

This is rare on this site, most people just hope that their lower palate will expand laterally and it does not. There is also little suggestion that t...

4 years ago
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RE: Is this an example of eye change from maxilla advancement?

This helps. Her teeth have changed in angle as well as the breadth of the arch in the frontal photo. So some orthodontic work too? LeFort is just movi...

4 years ago
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RE: Undoing orthodontic work

I think a similar retainer caused me the trouble I described because my tongue was positioned in my lower jaw. If you are mewing it won’t cause that p...

4 years ago
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RE: Undoing orthodontic work

This is a good account of your terrible tale. Your observation about how orthodontic appliances change tongue posture is particularly acute. I suffere...

4 years ago
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RE: Is this an example of eye change from maxilla advancement?

Her teeth are in a much better arch. It is a good example of what goes to make a pleasing smile. Things quite remote from the work done are affected p...

4 years ago
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RE: NEW theory about maxilla rotation!!

GrowRightOrDie explains a bit in the thread. ‘Below your lower incisors’ is a starting point to get the tongue as far forward in the mouth as possible...

4 years ago
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RE: Lips seal is the most important.Lips seal is everything and the only(almost) that matters

‘With the least possible facial muscles’ is a phrase doing a lot of work. To achieve this the lip seal has to be precisely and lightly achieved and we...

4 years ago
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RE: Lips seal is the most important.Lips seal is everything and the only(almost) that matters

Good stuff. It is more subtle even than a mere lip seal. It is about the quality of the lip seal if you want it to lead the muscles around the face a...

4 years ago
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RE: Uneven palate

I agree Lil Nut. Another thing that can prevent progress in fixing it or make it worse is tilting your head to one side. If you do this your neck musc...

4 years ago
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RE: Asymmetry and chronic distress after six years of braces. Complex problem. Expert advice appreciated. (Long post with lots of pictures.)

It is very difficult to remove the twist you describe. Holding the mandible to the left and moving about will do so much only. Exercises to untwist th...

4 years ago
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RE: Mewing Transformation  (pictures) Part 1 : Before the transformation

Work on lengthening the back of your neck to stop tilting your head. Check you are not favouring one side in chewing. Check you are not tilting your ...

4 years ago
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RE: Relapse after Maxillary Expansion

I think he is right. I think dentists describe adult orthodontic treatment in cosmetic terms not only to market and not only because they understand t...

4 years ago
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RE: Is my maxilla recessed? - Help in determining my problems

I think of 34 mm as normal narrow. I think it is where many people here start. I haven’t used a palate expander and you should probably take this into...

4 years ago
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RE: Is my maxilla recessed? - Help in determining my problems

You need to expand and flatten your palate. Your maxilla is recessed. Your nose shows this by its lack of straightness. The first thing to change is t...

4 years ago
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RE: How badly recessed is my chin and maxilla

How do you normally posture your mouth when you are breathing? It is quite common for people to have difficulty breathing when they start mewing. Tha...

4 years ago
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RE: Neck exercising + Mewing

The first thing I would pay attention to in your neck is releasing tension in it. Often people do not hold their head straight on their neck and have ...

4 years ago
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RE: Progress of Progress (Updated 1/2019)

The uptodate photo puts a very different perspective on things. Do you think the ‘unintentional’ pushing up on the right and out on the left was set b...

4 years ago
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RE: [Theory} Bite Position in Overbite

I want (A). I will persist in asking for it as my airway and joints do not object. I see no reason why my upper incisors should win in the conflict it...

4 years ago
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RE: New way of mewing for narrow palate

I also started with a narrow palate. This is in my view quite the right way to go. The front can come in time. Movement is slow at the beginning. I ha...

4 years ago
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RE: Progress of Progress (Updated 1/2019)

@progress I misunderstood. When you wrote you suspected that mewing would not be enough, I thought you were referring to orthodontic help. I find myse...

4 years ago
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