Break the Matrix

2. I see. Yet, assuming that you're right about palate being malleable enough to fully absorb the forces from the tongue, what makes you believe any kind of protraction device attached to the palate would circumverent this problem? Changing the medium through which the force against maxilla is delivered does not suddenly make the palate any less absorbing of those forces. Do I make sense?

YES this is the conundrum which perplexes me as well. Like assuming we are anchoring the retainer at the back teeth, won't that move teeth and not maxilla? Or maybe the maxilla as a whole i don't know!

Doesn't this look like it would move the maxilla forward, in a different way than how the tongue simply growths the roof the of the mouth?


Also
This guy at facepulling.com tried to address the issue by making this type of oral appliance.