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Posted by: angelo22
« on: January 19, 2017, 05:52:45 am »

I'm currently only practicing correct oral and head posture, along with some facepulling. I'm using a belt and my thumbs, but I do both very gently and lightly for about 30 minutes a day (usually in the evening, when I'm watching something at the computer).

About the pressure in the right TMJ area... it's not always there, usually it manifests after face pulling or a long day of tongue posture, but I've noticed it fades away when I don't push the palate. That's good news for me, cause it means I haven't stupidly hurt my TMJ, and I think the condyle adapting to the maxilla. Anyway, since I'd prefer to do things slowly than risk getting some real TMJ pain, I'm slowing down with face pulling and NCR these days :)

Am I getting progress from all this? I think so, I'm under the impression that my chin is slightly more forward than before! Unfortunately, I didn't take profile pictures when I started, so yeah... But I've taken them now, and then I'll see how much I'll improve in a year or two!
Posted by: MeltedFace
« on: January 17, 2017, 09:39:51 pm »

That's really good to read about... what are you doing to correct it? I'm asymmetrical too :(
Posted by: angelo22
« on: January 17, 2017, 02:47:24 pm »

First of all, it is definitely possible:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15153856
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10583739
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38088461_Influence_of_edentulousness_on_gonial_angle_ramus_and_condylar_height
http://www.ajodo.org/article/0002-9416(54)90127-X/abstract
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/254932/


These studies focus on how edentulism causes an increase in the gonial angle in elderly subjects.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but it's caused by a decreased in ramus and condylar height (just my opinion here, but I'd say caused by atrophy of the masticatory muscles, specifically the masseter?).


Knowing that remodeling of the skull bones does occur in old people is a guarantee that you can have it, too.

My, and I assume your goal is to decrease it instead, by moving the maxilla and letting the mandible slowly adapt and remodel to mantain the occlusion :)


I'm personally very optimistic, because I feel daily a pressure in the right TMJ area and sometimes the left one (I have a slight asymmetry, with my right side a little lower than the left one).
Posted by: MeltedFace
« on: January 17, 2017, 12:41:03 am »

Wondering how anyone has done with getting a leveled gonial angle... what methods did you see good results? Or what are you curious about that might work?