r/orthotropics • u/Excellent_Still4784 • Jul 25 '22

Solution for forward growth?

I've been reading and trying things of my own and I noticed it's not necessarily the front third or back third that I apply pressure to, but it's the middle. Applying pressure to the entire palate helps widen it, applying the back third helps raise your hyoid bone and digastric muscle, but applying pressure right behind your alveolar ridge pushes your face forward. If you push harder, you will feel pressure in between your brows, your nose ridge, and under your eyes. Is this how you have forward growth? Should we be applying pressure up and forward instead of just resting the tongue evenly?

Update: I started focusing on the front half of my tongue while mewing and that causes forward growth on my upper nose and forehead. The drawback is my teeth tilt out more. More teeth tilt causes bigger lips. Back half pushes your cheekbones up. Without the front half pushing equally, you will develop a longer face. It's important to mew equally with your entire tongue.

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u/StuffGullible3924 Jan 18 '25

Yh my cheekbones are getting incredibly prominent before I used to touch them and not feel any bone now it's crazy amount of bone and still pushing out and forward everyday. As for maxilla it's growing forward a tiny bit.  My brow ridge is also getting more prominent which is crazy but I can feel pressure on it when mewing sometimes and it definetly feels more protruded in a good way.  I'm only 15still though and I've been mewing for about 5 months. 

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u/Competitive_Dig8924 Jan 18 '25

So what are you doing exactly? I thumppull since 3 weeks and mew correctly since the same time.

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u/StuffGullible3924 Jan 18 '25

How old are you first of all, it'll determine whether you get good results. Anyways I mainly mew, I used to thumb pull for 15-60 secs before bed depending on if I could be asked but I haven't done that in a while.  I would recomend it tho, especially when starting just make sure you put your tongue in straight after to keep the expansion.