How to tell if your mandible is diminished & downward grown

[TaCopineEstMoche]

I have a new physical trait for you insufferable balls of neurosis to obsess over - the antegonial notch. This notch is located on the bottom of the mandible, just a little way forward of the ramus. Run your thumb along the bottom of your mandible. If you have a deep notch in your mandible around that area, your mandible is downward grown.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3468794/

 

[sorrowfulsad]

I have no idea where to feel and what Im supposed to feel. Please elab for us lowIqcels

 

[Mandiblecel]

I have no idea where to feel and what Im supposed to feel. Please elab for us lowIqcels

 

[sorrowfulsad]

I can feel a bump but its not deep. I guess Ive got at least this going for me

 

[Deleted member 147]

I have a new physical trait for you insufferable balls of neurosis to obsess over - the antegonial notch. This notch is located on the bottom of the mandible, just a little way forward of the ramus. Run your thumb along the bottom of your mandible. If you have a deep notch in your mandible around that area, your mandible is downward grown.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3468794/

I think everyone has this lol...

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

I think everyone has this lol...

Read the link....

 

[Deleted member 147]

Read the link....

My notch is about 2-3mm is that bad?

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

My notch is about 2-3mm is that bad?

I have no idea, haven't seen any clear definition of what makes a deep notch.

 

[Deleted member 147]

I have no idea, haven't seen any clear definition of what makes a deep notch.

Exactly nigga.

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

Exactly nigga.

but but but but the article

 

[Tr3way]

I got dat shit

 

[JimJones]

Why worry about something you don't have control over?

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

Why worry about something you don't have control over?

The things I have no control over are the things I worry about the most. The more control I have over them, the less I worry. Different philosophy I guess. Not that I'm worried about this notch in any way shape or form.

 

[TakaRyo]

I have a very prominent one, always knew it was a sign of recession tbh

 

[Deleted member 470]

I can kinda feel it but my jaw isn't awful, doesn't really affect how it looks at all

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

I can kinda feel it but my jaw isn't awful, doesn't really affect how it looks at all

The notch itself doesn't affect how your jaw looks. It's just a symptom of downward growth to the extent of its size. You can imagine it as a physical artifact of the jawbone growing downward.

 

[Wasting_my_life]

I just feel my massetter tbh, are you referring to the massetter?

 

[Nibba]

I just feel my massetter tbh, are you referring to the massetter?

It's the notch on your jawline. Feel on the bottom

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

One of my notches is much bigger than the other. Just one of many weird asymmetries all over my broken body.

 

[Wincel]

alright bitch nice try

one half of my mandible is downward grown and one isn't. The half that's fine has this notch and the half that is downward grown barley has one at all

seems reversed or its just a random thing

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

alright bitch nice try

one half of my mandible is downward grown and one isn't. The half that's fine has this notch and the half that is downward grown barley has one at all

seems reversed or its just a random thing

You have confused notches bro, it's over

 

[Wasting_my_life]

It's the notch on your jawline. Feel on the bottom

can't feel shit

 

[HorseFace]

I have a new physical trait for you insufferable balls of neurosis to obsess over - the antegonial notch. This notch is located on the bottom of the mandible, just a little way forward of the ramus. Run your thumb along the bottom of your mandible. If you have a deep notch in your mandible around that area, your mandible is downward grown.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/3468794/

Ok thanks for confirming what i allready know, my facial growth is shit. Is yours downward grown?

 

[Nibba]

can't feel shit

Forward grown

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

Ok thanks for confirming what i allready know, my facial growth is shit. Is yours downward grown?

Of course it is. Not as bad as some I've seen, but basically if you took my entire jaw and rotated it CCW a little, I would be JAW-JUS

 

[Deleted member 470]

any way to fix downward growth other than surgery? I assume it's too late for proper oral posture to help now

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

any way to fix downward growth other than surgery? I assume it's too late for proper oral posture to help now

Well there are devices like FAGGA which are supposed to help by creating forward growth in the maxilla. I think the theory is that the mandible will, if there's enough growth, swing forward to meet it. The jury is still out on FAGGA although there are a lot of very intense enthusiasts.

 

[Deleted member 470]

Well there are devices like FAGGA which are supposed to help by creating forward growth in the maxilla. I think the theory is that the mandible will, if there's enough growth, swing forward to meet it. The jury is still out on FAGGA although there are a lot of very intense enthusiasts.

so theoretically mewing should technically help a bit by inducing growth in the maxilla?

 

[Nibba]

any way to fix downward growth other than surgery? I assume it's too late for proper oral posture to help now

age?

 

[Deleted member 470]

age?

18, 4 months to 19

 

[Nibba]

18, 4 months to 19

mewing can work up till age 23. i started at 18 and my face changed in a year drastically

 

[Deleted member 470]

mewing can work up till age 23. i started at 18 and my face changed in a year drastically

well, I've already been for a month or so, so hopefully it'll still work, my jaw isn't too awful as is but if it was properly grown forward it would look a lot better

 

[future chadlite]

mewing can work up till age 23. i started at 18 and my face changed in a year drastically

do you hardmew?

 

[Nibba]

do you hardmew?

just normal tongue posture

 

[AstroSky]

intresting. i have this notch but people always said it looks good

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

so theoretically mewing should technically help a bit by inducing growth in the maxilla?

I guess if you're prodding the correct part of the palate with the tip of your tongue. The FAGGA device has an acrylic plate which exerts a light pressure on some special nerve at the front of the palate, and they encourage you to tap it repeatedly with your tongue also. So maybe mewing exerts the same effect, however the FAGGA device is designed to grow you a lot faster. Some people get 1mm per month.

intresting. i have this notch but people always said it looks good

I think everyone has it but the degree to which your jaw is notched is the degree to which you have downward growth, or so I understand from the link.

 

[mojopin]

Kurt Cobain had it too but still had near ideal facial development so it’s not really a good indicator of a downswung face although for sure the greater the angle the more downward growth

 

[TaCopineEstMoche]

Kurt Cobain had it too but still had near ideal facial development so it’s not really a good indicator of a downswung face although for sure the greater the angle the more downward growth
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I think what you're seeing in that photo is a "notch" created by the angle between his masseter and the jaw bone rather than a notch in the bone itself, although I could be wrong. Also again: everyone has the notch, it's the size of it which determines downward growth. I'm guessing that the notch itself is an artifact of the bone growing downwards to some degree, and everyone has some downward growth.