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MODIFIED CHEWING PATTERNS

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MODIFIED CHEWING
The jaw elevator muscles develop the main forces used in mastication. The force
generated during routine mastication of food such as carrots or meat is about 70 to 150
newtons (16 to 34 lbf). The maximum masticatory force in some people may reach up to
500 to 700 newtons (110 to 160 lbf). Being consistent we can train to be able chew 5+
pieces of hard gum Falim® and build up the strength of our masseters from constant
chewing, it is not unreasonable to expect to be able to exert 350+ Newtons of force per
mastication.
To compare how significant this is maxilla protraction is generally done with 10 Newtons,
and the tongue can exert around 5 while hard mewing, so it is safe to say that chewing is
60x more force than your tongue, making it an extremely potent change for actual bone
change, many people when thinking of chewing only look at it as a way to build masseters,
but this is simply a bonus.
Daily spurts of cyclic load caused sutural strain throughout the skull. The regime likely
enhances suture growth and may be therapeutically useful.
This means that sutural growth is possible from forces that only take place for few minutes
a day, and sutural growth is essentially what you need to make change in bone, past age
12 the sutures begin mature (and while they don’t fuse till very late in life, they become
very hard to stimulate growth from), chewing opens up an opportunity with the insanely
high forces as a gateway to awaken these dormant sutures.
While that should have provided some helpful background info on chewing, this is part of
the thread that will help you actually change your bone, based on your method(s) of
chewing, you can get any of the following assuming you follow the proper protocol:
Decreased midface length (or increase if your midface is overly compact)
Increasing orbitals more compact
Making cheekbones higherset
Increasing forward growth (maximizing really)
Can make your sutures more responsive to generating new growth
Remodels the jawbone itsself to be more robust
There is also the possibility of increasing the length of your maxilla laterally, some studies
also talk about the association of masseter muscles and maxillary transverse width.
The chewing exercises and their function in question:
Decreasing midface length- chew with the incisors
Increasing midface length- chew with back molars
Making cheekbones higherset- chew with first molar to first premolar
Making orbitals more compact- chew with first molar to first premolar and incisors
Maximizing forward growth- chew with the incisors
Weakening sutures for moving the maxilla forward (will give much quicker
mewing/facepulling results)- chew with incisors
Remodelling mandible to be more robust- any chewing method will give this change
You can combine methods as long as they dont contradict each other, incisor chewing vs
back molar chewing, personally i will be chewing falim for one hour on incisors and one
hour on my molar-premolar for an hour as well.
Mechanisms: Chewing on your incisors will apply an upward force to the anterior part of
the maxilla inducing a CCW(counter clockwise rotation) rotation, while inversely molar
chewing will cause a CW maxilla rotation, CCW rotation will also move the orbitals
upwards
The upper/middle part of the maxilla are located relatively at around the center of the
maxilla (the center of resistance is here as well), meaning that for a upwards translation of
the cheekbones you need to chew with the teeth located in the middle part of the maxilla,
as tipping the ends will not influence the center, this is the same mechanism that pertains
to the orbitals becoming more compact, as the maxilla translates upward, so do the
orbitals and zygos which will lead to highset zygos + more compact orbitals
Since when developing we are lacking the support of the tongue which would cause us to
grow vetically instead of forward, we all have a bit of CW rotation built into us, when
there is CW rotation it lessens forward growth, by correcting it you will gain forward
growth as well, it is similar to gaining height from fixing posture, you aren't actually
growing, just maximizing what you have.
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