Dentist here, your jaw line is defined by your jaw bone’s inferior border. The muscles of chewing attaches along the back portions of that border but the muscle bellies are in your cheek area. Chewing gum doesn’t do much, and even if it did it will only make your cheeks fuller and only when you clench.
The tongue position can have profound effect on facial aesthetics. It does not change the underlying bone structure, simply where the soft tissue like skin and muscles of the face and neck rest.
The mew position positions the tip of the tongue behind the two upper central incisors and rests the body of the tongue against the palate. The lips are kept closed in this position and the jaw muscles relaxed. With the tongue up against the palate, there is no room for air and with jaw muscles relaxed, as gravity pulls on the jaw a negative pressure is created within the mouth pulling the cheeks in.
This does a few things:
gravity pulling the jaw downwards accompanied by the negative pressure on the cheeks creates a slight concavity at the cheeks slightly accentuating the jaw line and cheek bones
the relaxed jaw muscles allows the jaw to be pulled slightly forward and down accentuating jawline at the angle of mandible area but also has the chin more forward.
gravity pulling the jaw down accompanied with slightly concave cheeks can create a more porportional lower face to mid face ratio in people with short lower face
placing the tongue on the palate means the muscles attached to the tongue originating from the hyoid bone are pulled higher which pulls the hyoid bone higher. The result is a more acute angle of the neck which helps accentuates jaw line.
the negative pressure in the mouth also puckers the lips slightly making it appear full
Ever noticed how models have somewhat puckered lips and concave cheeks? I’m willing to bet they practice this position. Of course, the biggest impact on an already mature adult jaw line is body fat.
I believe it is because Mew claimed it would fix problems it actually doesn’t. While it does affect facial aesthetics, it does not permanently fix anything. In his claim, he said this position can correct jaw deviations, misaligned teeth, breathing problems, etc. It is like saying maintaining a straight posture will correct scoliosis. It doesn’t.
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Dentist here, your jaw line is defined by your jaw bone’s inferior border. The muscles of chewing attaches along the back portions of that border but the muscle bellies are in your cheek area. Chewing gum doesn’t do much, and even if it did it will only make your cheeks fuller and only when you clench.
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The tongue position can have profound effect on facial aesthetics. It does not change the underlying bone structure, simply where the soft tissue like skin and muscles of the face and neck rest.
The mew position positions the tip of the tongue behind the two upper central incisors and rests the body of the tongue against the palate. The lips are kept closed in this position and the jaw muscles relaxed. With the tongue up against the palate, there is no room for air and with jaw muscles relaxed, as gravity pulls on the jaw a negative pressure is created within the mouth pulling the cheeks in.
This does a few things:
gravity pulling the jaw downwards accompanied by the negative pressure on the cheeks creates a slight concavity at the cheeks slightly accentuating the jaw line and cheek bones
the relaxed jaw muscles allows the jaw to be pulled slightly forward and down accentuating jawline at the angle of mandible area but also has the chin more forward.
gravity pulling the jaw down accompanied with slightly concave cheeks can create a more porportional lower face to mid face ratio in people with short lower face
placing the tongue on the palate means the muscles attached to the tongue originating from the hyoid bone are pulled higher which pulls the hyoid bone higher. The result is a more acute angle of the neck which helps accentuates jaw line.
the negative pressure in the mouth also puckers the lips slightly making it appear full
Ever noticed how models have somewhat puckered lips and concave cheeks? I’m willing to bet they practice this position. Of course, the biggest impact on an already mature adult jaw line is body fat.
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I believe it is because Mew claimed it would fix problems it actually doesn’t. While it does affect facial aesthetics, it does not permanently fix anything. In his claim, he said this position can correct jaw deviations, misaligned teeth, breathing problems, etc. It is like saying maintaining a straight posture will correct scoliosis. It doesn’t.
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