Veridic
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Another mini guide + personal anecdote on how I went from having the most shittiest overbite into my adult years and accidentally found a "solution" without any actual structural alignments having been done.
Might be useless to most, but at one point I realized just how dumb having an overbite made me appear so I would keep my tongue between my upper and lower teeth to keep a perceived "alignment" which kind of worked for some time. Until my bite started to actually feel more aligned and I couldn't feel comfortable keeping it any other way. Eventually I developed TMJ and had a weird clicking sensation in my right masseter region every time I chewed or clenched, which went away after a while on it's own and now I keep my jaw in this position subconsciously which helped me add some chin height prior to my journey through filler and implant work.
Is it real bite alignment? Probably not. But for me, it stopped being an overbite and didn't ruin anything, and really there's no downsides to it unless you're overdoing something which I can not think of right now as being a real risk. Who cares? The point is to change how the world perceives you and to improve behavioral feedback from peers when it comes to any aspect of lookism experienced in real life. Every small detail adds up.
TLDR: Kept my tongue between my teeth, led to tmj which went away after a month or two, bite aligned in this weird way which improved my chin height prior to cosmetic procedures and but I can not comfortably keep my jaw positioned in any other manner. Win win.
Might be useless to most, but at one point I realized just how dumb having an overbite made me appear so I would keep my tongue between my upper and lower teeth to keep a perceived "alignment" which kind of worked for some time. Until my bite started to actually feel more aligned and I couldn't feel comfortable keeping it any other way. Eventually I developed TMJ and had a weird clicking sensation in my right masseter region every time I chewed or clenched, which went away after a while on it's own and now I keep my jaw in this position subconsciously which helped me add some chin height prior to my journey through filler and implant work.
Is it real bite alignment? Probably not. But for me, it stopped being an overbite and didn't ruin anything, and really there's no downsides to it unless you're overdoing something which I can not think of right now as being a real risk. Who cares? The point is to change how the world perceives you and to improve behavioral feedback from peers when it comes to any aspect of lookism experienced in real life. Every small detail adds up.
TLDR: Kept my tongue between my teeth, led to tmj which went away after a month or two, bite aligned in this weird way which improved my chin height prior to cosmetic procedures and but I can not comfortably keep my jaw positioned in any other manner. Win win.
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