Do elastics descend you?

[Frogooboi]

So I have basic overbite elastics with my braces (I haven’t really been wearing them ) but would they make my maxilla appear more reccesed or nah?

 

[Snoofy]

it wont recess ur maxilla it helps recessed mandible

 

[Frogooboi]

it wont recess ur maxilla it helps recessed mandible

Yeah but doesn’t it pull the front backwards and pull the bottom jaw forward. Wouldn’t it pulling the front backward make you have a more reccesed middle third

 

[jawlineonvacation]

yes it descends you, it decreases forwarth jaw projection, softens the jawline, and increases lower face height

 

[Frogooboi]

Here’s side profile for reference

 

[jawlineonvacation]

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Here’s side profile for reference

are u planning to get elastics?

 

[Deleted member 197597]

it improves jaw position, so it would improve ur side profile but not to the extent of surgery and its not gonna do anything to do the bone

 

[Deleted member 197597]

 

[Frogooboi]

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are u planning to get elastics?

I have them then my ortho stopped them for a while now I have them again but I’m lwk too lazy to put them on most days

 

[jawlineonvacation]

I have them then my ortho stopped them for a while now I have them again but I’m lwk too lazy to put them on most days

dont your gonna descend

 

[jawlineonvacation]

Elastics suck

 

[jawlineonvacation]

most orthodontists only care about functionality instead of aesthetics

 

[Snoofy]

Yeah but doesn’t it pull the front backwards and pull the bottom jaw forward. Wouldn’t it pulling the front backward make you have a more reccesed middle third

no