@maddyfresh I agree with the poster above who correlates the metallic taste with a period of more active remodelling. I didn’t experience this until I…

Three months is pretty short for an adult, too. Think about moving your checks to every 6 months. As Kyte says, as adult you’re relying on bone remode…

It’s the Y expander from Braces Shop, with the Y section filed back so it doesn’t touch my front teeth

I have to disagree with you about Mew’s posture being feminine. He looks like a guy with good manners and good posture, not like a girl. He’s got his …

I’m using the Y expander up top and the standard one on bottom. I will PM you the link to where I bought them. I filed the front section back until it…

@eddiemoney, yes, it would depend a lot on your individual body. If you’re a person with a mild gluten intolerance, no amount of scraping would really…

No, a coating on the tongue is usually a bacterial overgrowth. Get yourself one of those bendy tongue scrapers that looks like a crosscut saw, use it …

Brody–god bless you, get off the internet and stop comparing your face to photos of others. Seriously, put your social media channels on hold for s…

I have both upper and lower expanders, and I’m having the same issue of it no longer fitting correctly on the bottom. I had significant orthodontic re…

@greekgodbrody Yes, exactly. It troubles me when I hear young men on this forum think they can’t attract a woman because their features aren’t _____ e…

Wow, incredible video from Astrosky! Yes, @dennisvn, you can expand. And to a large degree your teeth will straighten themselves as you get more sp…

I have severe anterior crowding on the bottom due to orthodontic relapse and am using a Schwartz plate to expand. I’m happy so far and the difference …

@ray135 I can support your post with experience. It’s not necessarily that women are intuitively anything, but they are certainly coached by their par…

Yes, you can. When mewing with a torus palatinus the difference for me is to think suction, not pressure, and you have to go behind the torus. “Press…

You’re welcome, and congratulations. You’re not the first person I’ve seen have this effect, and it makes a lot of sense that if we are expanding air…

@krollic, the poster said that she lost very little weight and has retained her double chin at much lower weights than her present ones, so most of th…

@the_fedora_tippler, pretty sure that some of these posters are closer to your age than the op, and some clearly a little older.

That’s incredible–congratulations! The other poster is correct, you look a LOT younger in the second photo.

This. My friend who is an obstetrical surgeon says, “Surgeons think with their scalpel.” They train for 8 years or more to think about solving problem…

There are are appliances that move the maxilla forward, like the AGGA or DNA. Accessing them is really a matter of if there are practioners in the ar…

Your face looks much more shapely overall, including your nose! Did you lose weight in this time, or is the change we are seeing all due to toning fro…

I’m glad you’re seeing this, Brody. We are all much harder on ourselves–totally irrational levels of judgement that we might be deformed, when we can…

My order arrived yesterday, the 26th–five business days to reach my door. The appliance fits well. At first I thought it came without a key to activa…

I understand your feelings. My own mandible is actually much smaller/recessed than yours is. I encourage you to have a look at the before and after ph…

Dude, do not take photos of yourself like this. Being this close to the camera creates distortions of perspective that make it impossible to tell what…

I really don’t, and I haven’t seen the matter of eyebrows explored outside this forum. The one other poster I remember for sure saying something about…

@greekgodbrody, I’m glad you’ve moved away from lookism. From what I can see, it’s a dangerous echo chamber, a place where a sense of proportion doesn…

@TGW, please consider making some variation of your post a sticky in the new youth forum. That message needs to be heard a hundred times. Almost every…

I agree with many of the posters above: there’s nothing wrong with your looks that would affect your social life or success with women. That said, you…

Yes. The same process is used for all dental appliances including braces. It’s a cast model of your teeth, so they can build the appliance to fit in y…

Good luck! One thing that might help you feel better in the mean time, is facial exercises/face yoga. It’s great for adding volume to the face. I star…

I don’t see the shape that I’m thinking of–but that wouldn’t have been diagnostic in any case, and I’m not a professional. Your gum health looks fant…

Yes. You’re probably the 4th person I’ve seen here other than me say that changes to the brow area were the first observable change. My brows were al…

This looks like bone loss to me. Not to say that your tongue tie isn’t involved–it could be. But other issues to consider are your nutrient uptake, y…

My items shipped today, June 21, exactly one week after the lab received my impressions. In the mean time, the seller had noticed that I had selected …

@jbsims, what was that like? it sounds like it would feel fantastic.

I can do a thread on face exercises, as it’s a great subject and I’m having good results. Your current issue will determine if your lips become bigger…

I made an order this spring. I placed the order on about May 19, received the impression kit from Germany on the 25th. I shipped them to China via USP…

Have you read Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon? She talks a lot about the role of nutrition in development and beauty. Her work is based on that…

@colette, yes, I’d say work on it for a while and see if it’s a strength issue. What I’m describing is very similar, or almost identical, to Progress…

@Progress, I was thinking about your foot strike question while running errands today, and I think the shift in the propulsive force of the walk is th…

@colette–ha! I do not teach in real life–at least not yet. I’d say I am a teacher personality type, for sure. And I am thinking about a career chang…

@Pame, see my first post in the thread above. I think this video does a fair job at explaining the difference between what he calls craniocervical tuc…

Aw, @collette, that is very sweet!! Yes, I do think tucked pelvis is a bad thing. Keep in mind that yoga is an acetic spiritual practice designed by…

@progress, I think I’m still getting there. I had a broken tailbone and torn ligaments surrounding it about 15 years ago, so I work with chronic tight…

Yes, it makes sense that you will feel like you are falling backwards–it’s not just the anterior neck muscles, but also the abdomen and back that bec…

You appear to have a pretty forward head posture, judging by the second picture. Beginning to work on that is something you can do right now, while de…

It might help if instead of thinking “tuck chin” you think “head back, neck long”. If you can arrange mirrors to see your profile, your ear canal shou…

Wow. So you think you are expanding even while in braces???

One thing this thread hasn’t talked about yet is that you absolutely must spend less time in front of the computer and more time moving in order to bu…

That looks like skeletal growth/remodeling to me. Both jaws look larger and the teeth don’t appear flared. I think that’s a pretty incredible result, …

Bones develop through stress. Check out Wolfe’s law: in essence it is, bones remodel to adapt to the amount of stress they are placed under. There are…

Yes, slouching backward would affect your ability to make progress. Check out the discussion of “occipital drive” in the thread, “Progress of Progress…

Esther Gohkale’s book 8 Steps to a Pain Free Back. Essential Somatics had great videos on releasing chronic tension on youtube. And I really like Yamu…

Awesome, now you know it can work! Go slow and easy, and shoot for “frequent low tension”. Someone noted that it’s necessary to have adequate tongue s…

I can agree that if the OP can access a chiropracter, physiotherapist and/or orthdodontist, it’s a great idea. He appears very young and he might not …

Put your two fists together in front of your face, and stick out your thumbs. They will be pointing toward your mouth. Put them in. Place the flats of…

Hey there. The first thing I notice is that you appear to have pronated feet: the weight lands on the inside edge of your foot, making the ankles bow …

Correcting your posture may show the weakness in some features, but that’s not all the same as looking worse. People who carry themselves uprightly ap…