Does Mewing Actually Work? 

My cat is always meowing and her jawline is perfect.

As an orthodontist i often get questions about mewing. Im going to send my patients this video for a more comprehensive information. As always, incredible videos doc!

Probably the most effective way of having a jawline more defined is going down on bodyfat percentage. First time I saw mewing I thought right away that even if it worked to an extent, one would already need to have a decently formed jawline to begin with.

Dear Dr Linkov, thank you so much for your interest and having gain such a good understanding of the core issue. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to chat openly with you and demonstrate some really impressive outcomes from these methods, especially when combined with appliances. It is through discussion, debate and engagement that we find new developments and improvements. It would be an honour to do a collaboration. Best wishes, Mike

I started it purely because it's still proper tongue posture and would encourage nose breathing as opposed to mouth breathing. I already had a decent jawline though. I've done it for about a year (started around when I turned 20) and have noticed minimal jawline changes that could have also just been a result of dropping my bfp following fitness and nutrition goals. It's also worth noting that the posture itself pulls the area under your jaw in a little as well as closing your jaw to the point where your teeth are almost touching squares your face more. If you take a side look at your face in the mirror and switch between holding the posture and fully relaxing it you can see what I mean. I've trained it to the point where I believe I still hold the posture when I'm asleep (fall asleep holding the tongue/jaw posture and wake up still holding it) which has forced me to breath out of my nose while I sleep, leading to better sleep and my throat doesn't dry out in dryer seasons from mouth breathing. If I'm congested though it can be hard to fall asleep because I have to break the posture a little to breath out of my mouth. Overall I think it's been mildly beneficial, took about 4 days to hold it without thinking about it, I don't regret it. The largest benefit has been the nose breathing. I also don't over chew. I would be interested in seeing a large scale study on how effective it is when you start in childhood but good luck convincing kids to try to hold the posture every day, many already sit like gargoyles.

Great vid, very fair and balanced. To be fair to the Mews, a lot of what they teach is taught in many dental clinics under the label of "myofunctional therapy". And the Mews have also talked that their preferred age to start intervention is 7 to 9 years old and that changes after puberty without appliances or surgery is minimal at best. Again, great take.

Thank you Dad

My daughter is six and is in oral/facial myology therapy with a speech therapist, as well as physical therapy for congenital hypotonia that affects her posture. A lot of the exercises to improve her breathing and swallowing are similar to the mewing techniques. She is six, though. So in theory, starting this young, she will be able to improve her breathing and swallowing. I discovered mewing after researching my daughter’s needs. It’s interesting that oral/facial myology therapy IS now being used with children. I think it’s a good thing that we now have awareness of breathing posture and exercises to increase our proprioception of oral/facial muscles.

Dr. Linkov is the best! He made it through this whole video without making any jokes or cracking up. Then again, there are absolutely people who will benefit from the information he provided.

I used to work fot Professor Mew in the late 1980's. I was a trainee technician, making braces as per his direction for the patient's (mainly young). He was a good boss and much fun on a Friday - always cracking open a bottle of Sherry. I saw the results of his work and being only 18 and had my own conventional orthodontic treatment with 4 extractions plus 4 wisdom teeth extracted - he explained how unnecessary the extractions were. I have many gaps as a 51 year old adult and my facial structure would have looked very different without the extraction. ❤ to Pr Mew

I used to have a nicely defined jawline in my teens. In my twenties I started to do heavy workout, increasing my body weight up to 10 kilos on muscle mass. I always had very low body fat (still do) and, when I increased my weight because of gym workout, I lost some of that defined jawline. My neck became very large, and overall my jaw doesn't look as pretty as it once was lol so i grew a beard 😂 problem solved Edit: I moved to Japan and I must shave my beard for work. RIP

TLDW: It doesn't work, because the bone structure of your jaw barely changes after 16 and is pretty much permanent after 25. There, saved you 10 minutes

And for those who do mewing as a natural position all their lives, without having heard of it? This was my case, and I've seen other people too who are surprised to learn that it's a "technique" and that not everyone has this natural position.

Also to consider is that even if mewing doesn’t show any change to your face is that, if you just leave your tongue on the bottom of your mouth over time it will cause some bad side effects. So even if mewing doesn’t have a major effect on what you look like it does keep your face from looking worse

I noticed I started having more fat underneath my jaw (forgot the name) once I stopped working out. You know I got rid of it? By working out again! I think people underestimate how much just keeping a healthily lifestyle does for you when trying to fit the unrealistic standards. It may not be like the models, but I'll be happy knowing I still have a perfectly working jaw in 40 years and am healthy.

I noticed that over the past two years I was clenching my jaw VERY tightly in varying positions during sleep, and it would often wake me up, at which point I would take note of it. (Sometimes clenching to the right, sometimes to the left, sometimes center and down.) I have recently implemented this mewing tongue-placement technique and it now comes automatically to me at night, whether I am asleep or just reading and relaxing in bed. It has been a game-changer in that regard. When I was clenching I was having horrendous jaw fatigue and buzzing sensations during the day that were extremely uncomfortable and sometimes distressing, due to the strange sensations it caused in my head, neck and jaw. It has now become automatic, all with very little practice! It will be interesting to see what, if any other changes, over time present themselves. ;0)

I've been practicing proper tongue posture and pushing my tongue towards the roof of my mouth for about 4-6 years, long before it was a tiktok trend, starting around age 16-18. I've noticed almost zero changes in my jawline, however my jaw pops less, and I don't feel like I have to pull my jaw back so far to close my teeth together. My permanent retainer came out at the age of 19, almost 3 years ago, and I lost the upper removable retainer very soon after getting my braces removed at 16. I've had almost no malocclusion and have not had any teeth or jaw issues since. I believe practicing orthotropics is partially responsible for my positive results without retainers while my jaw finished developing. On the other hand, over time my jawline has become less defined. the culprit? weight gain. body fat %. if you want a more defined jawline, lose facial fat, and push the back of your tongue up towards your soft palette while moving your larynx up when at rest (the last part is an immediate change, you'll also notice an adams apple shift up if you have one. I've done this for years from when I was overweight as a kid to hide a double chin. it's entirely voluntary muscle positioning, no bone changes or muscle hypertrophy exercises needed, just simple facial posture). Any "looksmaxing" claims are likely BS.

I live for Dr Linkov saying snatched

Oddly enough, this is the only vid I'd wat ch on this subject, because i actually trust this kid.👍👍👍

As someone who's done face yoga for several years, where mewing is a part of it, I can say when I stop doing it, jowling starts again and my face goes south for the winter. So in terms of teaching you facial muscle awareness and correcting your posture overall it's amazing (as face yoga teaches you, just like regular yoga, to sit up tall and roll your shoulders back, don't hunch etc.) . I used to have such a tight jaw that it dragged my right side down significantly more than the left. I can feel the difference as I used to grind my teeth on my left side. I also noticed improvement to my neck and cheeks being higher when I worked on relaxing the muscles in the face that are propagandistically pulling my face DOWN. BUT I have always had a strong jaw and a cut side profile. No mewing or face yoga is going to get someone that. It will simply tighten and tone facial muscles, or relax them if you focus on that. That's it. And it takes being consistent a few minutes daily.

It was a great surprise for me to learn (some time ago) that not everyone just rests their tongue at the roof of their mouth. I mean, when the mouth is closed, there is just enough space inside to squish the tongue in the mouth cavity, it takes all the space! And it takes some force to curl it inside or do anything else besides let it lie there. So it sounded weird. But at the same time tongue placement sounds just like mouth posture, so there may be some truth in that. Tongue positioning during formative age probably does influence face growth, so there must be a little truth to that. I don't think you can easily make a child swallow correctly, for example. So... yeah. Sounds like mewing is just misapplied.

in summary, no. No need to drag this out for 10 minutes.

I've been mewing by accident my entire life, it's just how my mouth sits the most comfortably, I thought it was the case for everyone. I've actually been trying to stop since I found out it's not how my mouth is supposed to sit. All the benefits that supposedly come from it, I've experienced none of them. I have teeth overcrowding and need braces and a retainer, I have sleep apnea, and TMJ. It all comes down to genetics.

It's important not to confuse the widespread trend, and whatever influencers are doing, with what the Mews are saying and doing. On social media the fad to ruin your jaw joint to look slightly better is strongly against what the Mews are advocating for. As you said, their main disclaimer is that mewing has limited effect for adults, especially without applying it properly, with a professional. What they are strongly advocating for is children to use mewing (often with appliances) to avoid irreversible and possibly damaging operations. A lot of their exercises are just generally healthy, and make you pay attention to things that matter for other than looks. For example they have an exercise where you tilt your head a bit forward (from neutral) and tuck your chin in: a lot of people, especially ones that work on computers, often have their head in the opposite of that position (tilt head backward, and push their head forward), which of course leads to neck and backpain. Same for tongue posture. I think all (at least most) the negatives you said here were addressing problems with the popular trend, not what Mewing is actually about. Which from one perspective is fair and evne good, because more people are exposed to the trend than to the content Mike Mew and his team, but with that you also necessarily misrepresent mewing, and orthotropics in general. I'm not even advocating for orthotropics, I have no idea about it, but it seems like it's consistently attacked, misrepresented and/or disregarded for no good reasons. Unfortunately it's also used and advocated for because of the wrong reasons, like on many social media channels.

I tried mewing as a form of facial exercise along with biting down on one of those hand stress balls (mine is egg shaped) and within a month I no longer had to crack my jaw to open my mouth. TMJ from an auto accident years ago created a locked jaw upon waking every morning and often when eating. Im pleased to say its been about eight months since my jaw has locked. I do these exercises about 3 times a week now. Thank you for the video!

My father was an orthodontist. He told me that children that live in very cold climate need more braces and jaw surgery because it changes your jaw position when you constantly breath mouth open (to warm the air before inhaling.) So your behavior can change your jaw, but mostly only in your childhood!

You are a good speaker dr you explain things so well!!

I've been wanting to look into this. I'm so glad you made this video

I'm 50 years old and have been mewing about 6 months now and it's snatching my face! My cheekbones are carving out and my jawline is firming up. I'm doing this along with facial yoga, gua sha stone & finger massage, since I also have TMJD (after much dental work) and chronic allergies/asthma and this combination has been amazing. I don't care if it's researched or anecdotal. It's working on me!!!

I ain't gonna lie doctor, Mewing worked wonder for me , I m 20 and mewing from last 1.5 year, and the changes it has on my jaw , cheekbones, maxilla is just amazing, gonna continue it .

If you have Tmj or jaw pain, I highly advise that you don’t try these devices because it aggravates and exacerbates the existing problem. Tongue placement is important, but those little devices aren’t worth screwing up your jaw for aesthetic purposes. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

I'm really curious about your thoughts regarding the argument that mewing is not necessarily about directing skeletal growth, but of repositioning what is already there. Dr. Mew talks about the bones in the palate not being fused together, making this possible. One observation he makes that I found striking is the effect of loss of muscle control in the bone structure in some people. Specifically, he mentions the distortion in facial structure suffered by Stephen Hawking as his condition deteriorated. The onset of his illness began as he already was a "fully formed" adult whose bone growth had stopped. Still, one can see the extreme distortion of his face due to the repositioning of the bones. This raises the question, if bones can be change position that way, can't they also change position for the better? Thanks for your videos, I very much enjoy your channel!

I've been mewing for a year...(more shewing) I'm in my mid thirties. It works for me 😉 My jaw is more squarish & defined ! My friends, some neighbors and even my mamá noticed. I love it 😍

I do neck and face exercises and that has worked to give me a slender neck line and lifted my face a bit, and I do have a more defined jawline, while I don’t do the mewing I do the exercises and they work, definitely helps tone everything up.

I did it and it works, jaw line back, nose breathing back, straight back back, not tired anymore after sleeping but full of energy like in my twenties. Im 44

Mewed for a few years - my teeth have become more straighter, in alignmnent. This was during 5 years without having a dentist. My dentist was pleasantly surprised at the alignment of teeth even with the delay in service. Nose breathing, and good tongue posture, can be a benefit for just that

I'm 59 and I've been mewing for about three years now. If anything, I've gone from having multiple chins that my daughter used to make fun of to one chin. I grew a beard to hide my chins. I've now shortened and reshaped my beard to accentuate my jawline now that I have one. I can't say that my jawbone has changed shape, but I can feel it's sharper. My wife touched it recently and exclaimed "What's that?". It was the back of my jaw bone. As for breathing I have noticed it does feel clearer when mewing. It just seems feels obstructed; not that I had a problem with breathing before. Even if the shape of my jawbone is not changing, like any workout that targets one area of the body, it does have an impact on reducing the fat that's hanging around it. Mewing does no harm, so I'll keep going. I don't think I will ever chew a dog toy though, and chewing gum loses its flavour too quickly, but I am eating more chewable red meat and less soft foods.

it would've been nice of you to say what part of mewing premise comes from mews themselves and what from unwashed internet hacks. if you look at what mike mew says it's 1) the process is slow 2) it is very hard after 25 and the best age to do it is 6-8 years old 3) excessive chewing is bad if you haveany jaw joint problems 4) it, being maxillary upswing, may help (once again - very slowly) against sleep apnea IF it is in fact caused by the bone structure and 5) if you don't have sleep apnea yet but developed unfavourable facial structure then fixing your tongue posture may prevent it if reduce the severity 10-20 years ahead and may make you overall healthier.

Beauty standards are different all around the world. I refuse to chase these trends to make yourself look better because I like the way I look and honestly I just don't care what other people think. I think everyone should try to implement this mindset because everyone is beautiful in their own way.

I've been mewing for about 5/6 years, although in the first year or two I've been doing it incorrectly. I can say it helped me breathing better and I can see some minor changes in my face appearance and in my jaw. It's about millimetres but my masseter muscle got a little bit bigger. I started at about 21 years old. The change for me has been for the better and it was totally free so I'm happy with the results.

I have been mewing for 3 years, and it certainly fixed my 50 year overbite. Highly recommended.

Well, I do mewing for about 3 years something like that and for about a year I started to see results. I did of course a before and after picture and the difference in the face shape is big, it does look way more attractive. I had pretty much same bodyfat at both time. I think some people are definitely over exagirate it, but it does work if you do it consistently.

Mewing is just proper oral posture and swallowing - still practice good habits! The Mews have seen so much success in young patients under 10, it’s insane.

I've been mewing my whole life without even realising it. In fact, I was surprised to hear that there are people who's tongue doesn't rest on the pallet. And yet, I don't have that defined jaw line plus my teeth are crooked. They grew that way and they stay that way. My jaw actually sits a bit off center because otherwise my teeth wouldn't engage properly.

i remember this starting like 10 years ago. since then i unconciously "reset" my tongue up my gum. Can't say it changed anything of my jawline (was already 20). But it helped against mouth breathing.

This whole looksmaxxing trend is complete bunk -- it's just basic hygiene and personal care. Then you got some others going to extreme lengths like using massage guns to try and re-shape the jaw bone (bone-smashing). Thankfully, I saw actual doctors chime in on this, and tell of the dangers that can result, like malunion. Either you have the genetics -- or you don't.

i know it sounds fake and too good to be true, but i improved SOO MUCH after just 1 month i be mogging fr

I tried mewing back in 2016 when I was like 14 years old, and it really helped define my jaw, also I was pretty fit back then so I did see a difference while maintaining a healthy body weight. However, I only did it for a couple months to a year, then I stopped. I'm not really insecure about how I look so I wasn't really bothered to continue. But, after that I had Invisalign for 2 years, and after I was done, they told me like they tell everyone else to wear your retainers every night, for the rest of your life. So, that's what I've been doing. They were pretty straight for a while after I was done with Invisalign, but now not so much. When I was younger, I also had to wear an appliance at the roof of my mouth to expand my upper teeth because they were narrow. It worked, but I realize that when I try to mew now, it's a bit hard to fit my tongue comfortably. So, I want to start mewing again in hopes that it could potentially expand my palette again, and to also not rely on my retainers for straight teeth, when my tongue (in theory) can keep the shape from becoming crooked and overcrowded. My breathing has always been fine. Also, I've been having issues with my hip for a couple of years. I did some physical therapy last summer for a couple months and that stretches helped only a little. My doctor told me I will never be 100% pain free, but it shouldn't stop me from exercising. I feel uncomfortable to push myself exercising now, so I feel very unhappy at times. I did a lot of research on why my hip is misaligned in the first place. Recently, I found out that the hips and jaw or connected, which made me have a revelation. My jaw is misaligned, so are my teeth, so are my hips, everything is starting to make sense. Yeah, obviously my posture is bad too. But it's not so easy to correct as I thought it was, it's more than just doing stretches everyday, it's about correcting bad habits that have caused the posture in the first place. Like sitting in office chairs all day on your computer, which is what I do for my job. So, I doubt mewing will actually have a significant positive impact on my health, but I'm going to try whatever I can at this point. Stretching, and correcting bad habits (making lifestyle changes) to improve posture and asymmetry in my body.

The two core aspects which Mew advocated, nose-breathing being preferential and that natural sceletal changes of the jaw are only viable until age 25 were mentioned. As such I'm fine with the video overall. Yes there will be plenty of people that deviate from the norm and will require orthodontic procedures to allign the jaw. That said by applying many of Mew's findings while raising children, orthodontic reliance can be cut to the necessary minimum.

Mewing actually works. I measure progress by seeing how many fingers I can fit under my chin in a deep chin tuck position at a wall (so that I can't cheat myself). I went from 2 to almost 4 (if not actually 4) fingers in 16 months.

I’m a normal weight 55 year old man that started noticing a few years ago that the fat pad under my chin was looking lower than I’d like making me look older. Around this time mewing was all over the place and I started doing it. I pretty easily picked up the habit so do it a lot of the time now. It definitely lifted my lower chin up into a better position and I’m very happy about it. It didn’t do anything for my sleep apnea though and I wear an appliance every night for that.

Mewing is best for kids aged 7-10 where they can get the most of it. Around adulthood, the "mewing" tongue posture will only accentuate your existing jawline if it had developed in the first place.

Keep in mind that Mike’s father, John, was also an orthographic surgeon who figured out that he could fix many of these problems without the use of surgery. This usually includes the use of appliances along with mewing/proper oral posture as an adjunct.

Repositioning your tongue so it rests flat under your palate does have an effect of the fullness of the midface. I noticed a slight improvement after a few days, but for sure nothing dramatic.

I just recommend moderate exercise and diet control. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking you have to swing to extremes to get lasting results; you don't. You don't have to train like an Olympic athlete to lower your body fat percentage and keep it down. A casual gym routine with just a little bit of self-restraint in the diet will do wonders for you. You'll look better, but more importantly, you'll considerably lower your odds -- or at least mitigate the effects of -- many of the conditions which bedevil us in old age. There may not be much you can do to reshape your jawline short of surgery, but even a less than ideal jaw can look well above average on someone who is healthy and lean.

I was well past my 20s when I discovered mewing. That was 6 years ago, have been doing it ever since. I trained myself to sleep with my tongue in the recommended mewing position. When I'm doing cardio or driving, I have my tongue pressed to my upper palate. As with other times when I'm doing something new, I started on June 1, 2017. I didn't tell anyone. By November 2017, people began noticing the positive changes. The questions were such as asking if I had "work" done on my face. Other questions tended toward, "What have you been doing differently?" People saw the positive changes, they didn't know what I was doing to make the changes. My jaw line did become slightly sharper, the very slight turkey neck was gone. My cheek bones became more visible. I had never been much of a mouth breather. After I began mewing, I have only been breathing through my nose. I believe in the mewing method; I recommend it to other people of all ages when they ask me about it.

I did orthotropics as a kid because i was a mouth breather and my mouth didn't grow because of poor tongue placement. I think it did work but it took 2 years for my 2 front teeth to overlap *less*. I ended up with braces and a palate expander as a teenager and that was much more effective/painful.

love this type of video, extremely informative, the explanation of the subject at the start and then exploring it afterwards works incredibly to inform and educate everyone on what the subject of discussion is and how and what are the effects of it.

In prehistoric times, people used to chew animal hides to soften them to make clothes and sleeping robes. It kept your jaws strong. It also wore your teeth down quite a bit. Most of the chewing was done with the very back molars, which is what your wisdom teeth were for.

I started Mewing in my late 40 and saw a huge change in just 3 months. I'm 55 and my jawline rocks! I also have good jeans and look about 39/yo with a 29/yo girlfriend. Weird but I'm not going to complain.

Like most things - the truth is probably in the middle. Though there doesn't seem to be much for adulthood, there appears to be some truth from childhood. Researching childhood development and resting location of the tongue vs facial structure vs tooth alignment, it appears that there is a noted difference in those that are more nose breathers, as they tend to rest the tongue on the roof of the mouth when the mouth is closed, and the teeth tend to need less orthodontic alignment vs counterparts. Theories I've found in different studies range from constant pressure of the tongue against the roof and against the backs of the teeth maintain alignment and press the jaw out during development, vs it being genetic, and due to existing facial alignment favoring tongue placement (and teeth alignment),

I was mewing since i was 11 on accident because it felt good to constantly exercise my face, best thing i ever did; it works.

Been mewing for a while, mainly for posture improvements and have experienced some improvements. But it's really nothing like the orthotropics nerds claim it to be, lol. You can't mew and expect all your dental and facial problems to be fixed. Mewing is really just correct tongue posture, and most people are probably mewing without knowing it, but it can be improved even further by learning and practicing the proper technique. It's really nothing crazy like some people are claiming but it's still worth to learn imo. It's kind of the same as keeping a straight back with shoulders back, it's just good posture.

Face shape most definitely changes as you get older, for me at least. In my teens and twenties I had a longer more slender looking face with little jaw definition, but when I hit my mid thirties my jawline began to get wider, now my face is much more square looking in shape, with a more defined jaw. I've stayed around the same weight, so that's not the change and I've never done any of this mewing, so I don't know what changed it or why. In my mid thirties I did start strength training and swapped to higher protein diet, so perhaps that had something to do with it.

Me with my massive masseters due to bruxism and unconsciously sucking my tongue to my palate in my sleep with nothing happening. I also lost fillings and crack teeth due to this and have to wear a dental guard nightly. I’d be worried this will lead to more people developing bruxism and as you said TMJ pain/disorder.😢

Years ago I actually googled "change your face" and mewing came up because I had noticed as did Dr Mew that bones morph over time. If they morph naturally then they can be guided which is why keeping my mouth closed and tongue pressed firmly on my palate not only reduced my open bite but also opened my nasal passages allowing for far easier breathing during sleep. It didn't happen over night but actually took a year or so before I actually saw good results.

The benefits of mewing might be overblown, but I don’t need retainers anymore because of it. Win in my book

for me changing the posture of my tongue to the roof of my mouth has an immediate effect removing the heavy neck. and tbh its a pretty drastic difference. i dont know if my usual tongue posture is just abnormally bad but in that sense "mewing" makes my face shape look alot better instantly. i dont really look at it as an excercise more like making this tongue posture a habit.

One thing a lot of people don't realise is changing their facial structure - mouth breathing. Breathing from the mouth has been proven to develop a more adenoid face, which includes a recessed jaw, misaligned teeth and convex facial features. It affects the entire profile of the face including the eyes and nose. Not only does nasal breathing prevent this misdevelopment that occurs through mouth breathing, but it also leads to much better respiratory health overall. The nose also acts as a filter for pathogens and other foreign objects that the mouth doesn't protect against. Aside from this, unfortunately the most proven way to fix facial structure is through orthodontic treatment, which works really well but is obviously expensive in most places (and hard to access in many locations as well). Also even mouth breathing often requires a medical intervention to fix as there are many conditions (e.g. deviated septum in nose) that make it impossible to breathe through the nose or at least impractical enough that breathing through the mouth is the default rather than through the nose, which means it'll probably be entirely mouth breathing during sleep.

it is not just their speculation but a consensus in orthodontics in general that tongue posture and mouth breathing does result in elongated faces and changes facial structures.

Such a cool channel. From my xp; as someone who has battled insecurities and had a - modest - modeling career: to anyone who's ever been a victim of hate / violence because of their appearance, gender, orientation, race: DO NOT ever let a hateful notion 'there's something wrong with me' sink in. Trust me, it's a recipe for self hatred. When we suffer and we need a break, it's only natural to think: maybe if I wasn't 'different', if I was 'normal' I would be accepted. No, haters will always find something else to prey upon. I've always had kinda androgynous look, which was a fuel for bullies when I was growing up. I embraced it, used it to my advantage in my acting / modeling career, I was almost the face of Leon in these new Resident Evil games :)

The good Doctor's answer: Mewing is probably bullshit. Thanks Dr. Linkov for promoting critical thinking, skepticism, and calling out nonsense. Keep up this noble work!

Well it depends on what you are after. I knew nothing about mewing. Sick of my blocked nose all the time especially at night. Sick of walking around with mouth open. I pushed my tongue to the roof of my mouth now held by suction. Now i breath by my nose constantly, very happy. Not looking to change my face by mewing or your plastic surgery Thank yo

I've been mewing for 3 years, my breathing improved, and snoring is less. My mouth is relaxed now, unlike before.

Nose breathing and tongue posture are important and its a proper way of breathing ... Soft mewing is nothing more than just a proper tongue posture.

I had severe malocclusion and trismus. I had never been able to fully close my lips together. Brushing my teeth and eating was always a chore. I started doing mewing exercises this year and I can already close my lips, fit a toothbrush between my upper/lower teeth, and eating is better with more aligned teeth for bite surface. I'm 38.

Hey. This is the best delivered counterargument to Mewing I've seen to date. Have you tried reaching out to him for some sort of friendly debate?

Funnily enough, I have always held my tongue against the roof of my mouth. It just always felt weird doing it any other way for whatever reason, but I also eventually developed such overactive masseter muscles that their size and tightness became a massive issue. So much so that as an adult they got so strong, I could barely open my mouth wider than a child's mouth range (I discovered this when I went in for a procedure and they went to put a breathing tube in my mouth and the guard to protect my teeth was was too big (adult size) and the child size was almost too big as well. The increase in size and strength of my masseter muscles also (unknown to me as it took me years to figure out what was even going on - I did not even know there were muscles called Masseter, haha) was causing migraines, tension headaches, severe jaw pain, ear ringing, interrupted sleep, teeth grinding, and even severe clenching during times that I should not have been clenching, not to mention the worst of it was when the muscles would cramp up and then one would overpower the other pulling my entire jaw to one side or the other, also forcing my mouth closed with me actively having to fight against it. I went to see someone about the muscles and to hopefully get help and when they saw the size and tension of them, they were shocked, and they have dealt with patients for this before. I ended up having to have Botox injected into each muscle to bring down the size and strength and it was almost instant (within a few days at most) the change in all the issues I listed above. I basically said all that to say, I personally would be careful working out the masseter muscles, haha, as the fact that mine did whatever they did and caused me so many issues and so much pain due to their size,, strength, and constant tension for years was a horrible experience.

In the before/after pictures we see on the Orthotropics channel there's a lot of other factors affecting the results. We see no makeup/good makeup, bad lighting/good lighting, fatter/leaner, younger/older, curved posture/straight posture, prominent Adam's apple/the disappearence of said piece of cartilage, not bone, in another part of the body - neck, not in the head, magically gone...(a.k.a. plastic surgery or photoshop). It's like getting an old, rusty, beat up car saying you'll change the broken bumper and that will make the car look a lot better. You take a picture of "before." Overhaul the whole vehicle with a bunch of different procedures, then take the "after" picture. "Notice the huge difference," you say, "My new bumper makes this car look a lot better, isnt it?" I don't care what excuse is given in a few videos among the dozens. Everybody knows how that's misleading, they do it anyway. It's scammy. Like most of the beauty industry.

For anyone wondering: Doctor Gary Linkov is a Ukrainian Jew. Ethnically speaking. And holds a doctorate in Environmental Health. Dr. Gary Linkov is a board-certified facial plastic and reconstructive surgeon. Thanks for your input Gary. Some good info!

I starting doing this in my early teens (female) to help with breathing. I’m a nose breather now as an adult but my face is not any different. There is an immediate improvement with good tongue posture but I have not noticed a structural change and neither has my orthodontist. I wish it did work but I think it has to be implemented a lot earlier (like baby teeth early). I don’t believe it will work for anyone over 16 period. It’s really helpful if you grew up with allergies though and don’t know how to breathe right.

It does work lol , it improved my sleep , enabled my meditation , thickened my face , helped my breathing during running so I dont need to breath at all from my mouth even at sprints .

Me and my man did mewing for a while and we have seen great results.

Fascinating. I commented on a previous video that my lower jaw is about half an inch out of alignment, if it had been fixed as a teenager I wouldn't have the problems I now have. I'm now in my 60's so am stuck with it.

For people who don't believe in mewing, I started mewing around 16 and not even a year in, everyone commented on how massive my face changes, for the better. My "allergies" were gone the first day I mewed, and my posture got better even though I didn't pay any attention to it. Mewing has been life changing for me. There is no peer reviewed research on mewing on anything, but there is overwhelming evidence on mewing does actually works. I'm forever grateful I found mewing.

A summary of the information is that after 16 the bones in the face are generally done growing/moving, so mewing will not be as effective in adulthood/past the age of 16 as before that cutoff point. However, important to take what he says with a grain of salt as he is an employed plastic surgeon by the looks of it. Regardless; mewing wont hurt and can perhaps at the very least improve your confidence through placebo. Forgot to mention, he also states that there is a bone in the neck and it's position can determine how "fat" the bottom of someones chin/jaw may look. Mewing seems to raise this bone as it is connected to the bottom, which could help reduce a "fat" neck.

It’s where your tongue should be. Don’t expect miracles, but it is definitely worth the effort.

The opposite of mewing is certainly effective in adults - look at how Stephen Hawking's jaw massively deformed because of his immobile tongue (he developed a massive underbite) and how jaw resorbtion occurs in adults who have their teeth removed and replaced with dentures.

They certainly are on to something. I as a child went through orthodontic treatment and I can now see the downsides. Interestingly enough, my orthodontist was praising my side profile before the treatment. I will not elaborate further here, but for anyone who has a child with crooked teeth, please please look into orthotropics before orthodontics

a lot of people that are making mewing content DONT HAVE A RECESSED JAW. I have a very recessed jaw, I literally look like the diagram at the beginning they show. I’ve been told surgery is my only option but I’m incredibly afraid to do that cuz I have always had uncontrollable vommitting after anesthesia. I can’t imagine what would happen if my mouth was wired shut. So im gonna give it a go and see what happens, probably won’t turn into a model but if I can maybe get rid of the pocket below my lips where my chin should be but isn’t that’d be cool! And if I still end up needing surgery, it’d be nice to not need as dramatic a move!

sealing the tongue to the upper palate is called khechari mudra. it has been a practice in yoga and helps to breath through the nostrils and to better recruit the diaphragm. honestly yoga always sees everything first.

The analogy I’ve heard is it’s basically sucking in your gut but with your face. Over time you may just stop thinking you’re doing it but it’s not physically changing any bone or jaw structure.

I’ve been practicing mewing (placing my tongue on the roof of my mouth) and I’ve noticed a bit of change on my jaw. My face is a bit more symmetrical now compared to before

I actually heard of a different version of this much earlier. Ill give you my take on this whoever is interested. Ive read that its constant pressure of the tongue on the roof, same as this current version, as well as constant teeth on teeth contact, that encourages a better looking face. Teeth on teeth contact means that you keep your jaw closed and teeth touching each other, but youre not supposed to clench it. Just keep the mouth closed. Ive always had a large tongue, large enough that if I opened my mouth and relaxed, it would cover my lower teeth with a little to spare. If I relaxed my mouth when not moving it, naturally my tongue would push my teeth apart slightly and basically rest on the sharp points of my teeth. This would give me ulcers and was painful. Thus I always semi consciously closed/slightly clenched my teeth to ensure that there were no gaps. I would also sort of like gather my tongue in the middle of my mouth to avoid pushing on my teeth too much. Since the tongue has to go somewhere, I kept it pressed on the roof of my mouth. When I slept, I always drool. So to counter this, if I slept on my stomach I would basically put something under my jaw to force my mouth shut. I basically did this my entire life, even before reading about this. As compared to my other 2 brothers as well as the general public, I have a strong jawline. Is it an incredibly strong jawline? No, but likely above average. What I did have was a very good set of teeth. I didnt have to wear braces at all and I only removed 1 set of wisdom teeth (I regret only removing one set). I will say this though, your teeth are quite malleable. Especially if they grow out of position due to the pressure throughout it (like having wisdom teeth pop out). I found that when my teeth start to grow out of shape, clenching them for a decent period of time did put them back into shape more, and the change does last quite some time. It is more effective to clench a little over a long period of time though, and clenching them hard for a short period of time hurts the teeth so I do not recommend doing it too hard. Just constant pressure through the day. Thus for this mewing thing, I do believe the tongue on roof thing to a certain extent. I do believe it does help a little, but I dont think its going to help a lot. Dont expect miracles. Just like if you do a bunch of bicep curls, the skeleton of your arm will not start twisting and changing shape. Same here. Exercising your facial muscles wont mysteriously make it twist and change shape. For teeth however, I think chewing on a dog toy will basically put unequal pressure on your teeth. Over time, I think the teeth will become more unequal and basically I think it fks up the teeth.

On that note, the thing I’ve been most thankful for in my life was my free braces and new jaw positioning at the age of 13. Got fuller lips and better jawline and my health improved.

We may eat softer foods today but the stress and pressure of everyday life have me clenching my jaw so much I feel that I should have the jawline of a supermodel by now. Where’s my supermodel jawline Doctors Mew??

Real or not, it doesn’t hurt to do. It’s useful info to make sure your youngest kids have proper tongue placement.

I like how Dr’s don’t like the way that something like mewing actually works, and improves facial structure. Cause its free, like working out instead of getting a lipo

Do you want to say that this technique is useless for adults? But there is a friend who is about 30 or 33 years old, and he says that he got the results months later

When a human swallows, the tongue must elevate to help create the vacuum to propel the food bolus backward. This is just an increase of carrying the tongue high against the palate. It seems harmless. I don't know if it will change the face shape greatly. As to the dog toys, when I was doing therapy with persons with inadequate jaw strength, we did use graded plastic bite bars. But as Dr. Linkov said, you have to know what you are doing to not cause harm.