Attractive Face or Not? It depends on Tongue Posture - Legendas Bilíngues
Is the structure of your face 100% determined by your genes?
Or can you change the bone structure of a person's face without surgery?
Here we have a 10 year old boy with a strong jawline and overall good looking face.
who went on to develop flat cheeks, a chin, a weak jawline, and a slight hook in the nose by the age of 17.
If this was the work of jeans, why would they work hard to make a good looking face until age 10?
Let's slack off after that.
Well, right around age 10 the boy got a pet gerbil, which he kept in his bedroom.
room.
He was allergic to the animal and his nose became stuffy and obstructed,
forcing him to separate his lips, lower his tongue, and open his mouth, otherwise he could.
Next, take a look at these two brothers.
Ben has a slightly flatter and longer face where Quentin's face seems to have grown more forwards rather than vertically.
I think most would agree that Quentin's face is a bit more attractive.
So, did Quentin just get lucky Probably not, because what's striking about these brothers is that they are identical twins.
The only difference is that one had traditional orthodontic treatment, and the other was treated by Dr.
John with what's called an orthotropic treatment.
Orthotropics and its principles are extensively discussed on the Orthotropics YouTube channel by Drs.
Mike and John Mu.
Simply put,
it is a method for achieving proper development of the Developed in 1966,
the general goal of orthotropics is to guide the upper and lower jaws to grow forwards.
Here's another example of orthotropic treatment on a little girl, where Dr.
Kevin advanced the maxilla.
He the bone of the mid-face to come forward without surgery.
Here's another example from Mike Mew where the maxilla was brought forward, again without surgery.
I think most would agree that both girls have achieved a better looking face.
So, what makes this possible?
Well, as these examples would suggest, the development of the facial skeleton is not fixed.
The bones of the skull are held together by fibrous joints called sutures.
The maxilla, the bone of the upper mouth, is connected to the cranium and face by several sutures.
And the interesting part is that these sutures are not New bone can still be made at the sutures, even in adults.
In fact,
certain sutures do not begin to fuse until 68 to 72 years of age,
which is why the positioning of bones of the skull can be useful information in forensics and archaeology.
As Dr.
Felix author of 6-foot Tiger 3-foot cage explains, the potential for maxilla facial redevelopment is alive even late in adult life.
There are clear examples of structural change in an adult's facial skeletons.
When the nerves in the face have been damaged, the lack of muscle tone can morph the facial bones.
Here is Mike Mew showing the shift in facial bones on a woman who was affected by a disease of the muscles.
Not a disease of the bone, but an affliction to the muscles has morphed her facial skeleton this much.
A more famous example is Stephen Hawking,
who is afflicted with a motor neuron disease, yet the bones in his face seem to have also drastically changed over the years.
So what about adults changing their facial skeleton for the better?
Here's one example from the Orthotropics YouTube channel.
Here's another from Dr.
John Mu's website.
And in this research article by Professor G.
Dave Singh, what they call facial enhancement has been achieved in a 19 and 26-year-old by applying orthotropic principles for only one year.
The 26-year-old's eyeliner is giving her a bit of an advantage in the second photo.
If you look closely,
you'll see the 26-year-old has a more pronounced jaw,
and the face has come forward a bit, which makes the mid-face appear fuller.
In fact, 12 adults in total participated.
and several facial angles were measured to track objective change in the face.
They significant changes in the labio-mental and thiromandibular angles, concluding that their approach may enhance facial appearance non-surgically in adults.
Okay, let's cut to the chase.
How can we move the bones of the face around to have a better functioning, better-looking face?
Well, one simple way is to follow what John Mu calls the Tropic Premise.
Rest the tongue on the palate with the lips sealed and the teeth in light contact for four to eight hours a day.
This might not sound like a big deal,
but the tongue is a relatively big muscle and can exert plenty of
It's plausible that having this large muscle press up and forwards on the maxilla for eight hours a day,
and hopefully while you're sleeping, over a few years can make small but noticeable changes in the structure of the face.
But hold on a moment,
these improvements I just showed you were made using appliances that fit in the mouth and exert the necessary forces on the skull required for facial change.
It's been tough to find people who made improvements just by maintaining good oral posture over the years, but I've dug up three examples.
Each person seems to have started at a relatively young age, and I don't have many specifics, but they are worth looking at.
Here's a post on a forum of someone who is apparently 15 in the first photo,
and The angles are quite different, but if these are the same person, it's a drastic change even given 5 years.
This is from YouTube channel Megan X Rose.
The only information I have is that this picture on the left was taken 3 years before the one on the right.
She may have lost some weight as well, but here's her in a recent video.
Her cheekbones and jaw appear much more pronounced.
One more example is YouTuber AstroSky.
He apparently began working on back and tongue posture when he was 16.
Here are two pictures when he was around 16 or 17.
And him at 18.
Here's him now at 22.
It's not shocking that the face would change from 16 to 22 years old, but this is a particularly drastic change.
This suggests that his maxilla has come forward.
These three examples are again not the strongest pieces of evidence,
but they at least show that the face can change to some degree without appliances or surgery.
Another effect of having the tongue on the roof of the mouth is that,
especially when young, it widens the dental arch, which helps to have straight teeth.
Though, I think most would assume that straight or crooked teeth are genetic.
So if it's not genetic, what causes crooked teeth?
In this paper by Dr.
Kevin Boyd,
he states that dental carries as in cavities and malocclusion,
which means misaligned or crooked teeth,
while now highly prevalent public health diseases are both surprisingly rare within the pre-industrial skeletal and prehistoric fossil records,
and also seldom seen in many present-day non-Westernized cultures.
This is very striking,
considering according to prophets 1994 contemporary orthodontics, two-thirds of the US population has some degree of malocclusion, misalignment of the teeth.
Yet, malocclusion with a known cause is listed as only five percent of population, that leaves 60% of people with malocclusion for unknown reasons.
In 1939,
an American dentist named Weston Price traveled around the world,
examining the oral health of both civilized groups living on modern foods and isolated groups living on native diets.
He published his results in a book titled Nutrition and Feels Like.
What's most interesting is the pictures in the book.
Here we have girls from isolated valleys of Switzerland and children from modernized districts of Switzerland.
Here we have native Alaskan Inuit people also called Eskimos,
and on the right we have the first generation of children born after the parents
adopted Notice how there is some wear on the teeth especially on this person but the teeth are straight.
Here we have isolated Native Americans and the first generation Native Americans with a modern lifestyle.
Here we have people from islands in the southeastern Pacific before and after adopting a modern lifestyle.
Then we have Samoans, a tribe in Belgian Congo, Australian Aborigines, and Andean Indians.
Here we have two brothers from the Isle of Harris, the one on the left uses modern food, the one on the right native foods.
There are several more examples in the book of people living on their native diets with excellent teeth,
and then people with similar genes living on modern diets with unhealthy and crooked teeth.
Paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman reports in his book Evolution of the Human Head that
jaws and faces do not grow to the same size that they used to.
And if we go back to these pictures, we notice that these people have relatively broad faces with broad dental arches.
If you compare a prehistoric skull to a modern day skull, you'll find that we used to have far broader dental arches.
Weston Price's book highlights the importance of fat soluble vitamins in the diet for proper growth and development,
but for this video we'll look at how a different characteristic of the diet can affect growth of the skull.
biological anthropologist Clark Spencer Larsen says that agriculture instigated a fundamental change in human craniofacial growth and development.
He highlights the use of cooking vessels as an impactful innovation because it allowed for humans to make soft, mushy food that required little chewing.
He says such culinary adaptations resulted in fundamental changes in craniofacial growth and development.
Resulting in reduced robust massness, increased malocclusion, and increased tooth crowding.
So, where people in the past were gnawing on very tough, fibrous, low-calorie plant foods,
as well as raw and cooked meat, maybe to chomp through skin, cartilage, and stuff.
Now they could make porridges and maybe some stews that provided much more calories for less chewing effort.
One piece of evidence for the significance of having to chew much more and harder to
get the same amount of calories is the fact that skulls found with good occlusion with
straight teeth are found with extensive wear on the teeth.
As Rose and Robley explain in this
Thorough analysis of dental data from the Armana project has shown that Egyptian and
most ancient teeth have extensive tooth wear on even the youngest of individuals.
Malocclusion is rare in Amarna, but very common in America.
Tooth wear is extensive in Amarna, yet rare in America.
And dental microware analysis shows that hunter-gatherers ate a that wore down their teeth much more than farmers.
This would mean stronger masseter and temporalis muscles, the muscles in the face involved.
Spending most of your day chewing on things hard enough to wear the teeth down to that
extent could exert enough direct and indirect force on the skull to morph the facial skeleton and dental arch.
But there's an unexpected effect of having soft foods early in life.
The idea is that when a baby is weaning off breast milk,
if they move on to hard foods, they would have to develop a different swallowing pattern.
pattern.
If you have a straw or bottle nearby, you can test yourself to see what I mean.
Your swallowing pattern when you suck down liquid is different when you chew up something hard and swallow it down.
So if you wean the baby onto soft,
mushy foods that can be suckled down,
the baby doesn't develop a proper The swallowing pattern you want to develop is where your tongue pushes tightly up against
the palate to pull the food into the esophagus.
What you don't want is to swallow with your tongue sucking on your teeth.
It's estimated that humans swallow around 600 times per day with about 2 pounds of force against the palate.
This frequent force exerted on the palate, as well as your resting tongue posture, can affect the dental arch.
Quite simply put,
if the tongue is an exerting force on the roof of the mouth, and pushing the teeth outwards, they can come to cave in.
The upper arch should form like this, thanks to the tongue pressing against the teeth, preventing the pressure of the cheeks from pushing them out.
in, but if the tongue isn't holding the teeth in place, the teeth can get crowded inwards.
One more piece of evidence for this idea is a work of Dr.
Eagle Harvold on Reese's monkeys.
Reese's monkeys, when left to their own devices, will breathe through their noses with their mouth closed and their tongue resting on the skin.
and they usually have properly functioning straight teeth.
A 1981 paper describes how Dr.
Harvold blocked the nasal passages of rhesus monkeys with silicone nose plugs.
This causes them to develop an open mouth posture with a tongue pulled down off of the roof of the mouth.
So, what effect did this have?
The paper reports that the common finding was a narrowing of the mandibular dental arch
and a decrease in maxillary arch length causing an incisor crossbite.
Simply put,
by pulling the tongue down and breathing through the mouth,
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