Looks = Health

Even though I was still considered young, the changes in my facial appearance weren’t random side effects of puberty. I had an asymmetrical palate, and the inclination of it reflects your symmetry because it’s is the base of the central bone in the face: the maxilla. The maxilla is connected to every single bone in the skull and has an impact on eye support, cheekbones, and cheek lines. Bone isn’t static, it’s dynamic tissue that constantly remodels based on mechanical inputs. Through thumb pulling and myofunctional habits, I consistently applied targeted pressure to the maxilla and other facial bones. This activated a process called mechanotransduction, where osteocytes sense the mechanical stress and trigger osteoblasts to deposit new bone matrix. It also works according to Wolff’s law: constant pressure over a long period of time reshapes bone. Over time, this shifted my facial structure, specifically the zygomatic arch, midface, and orbital support area. That’s why my symmetry improved and my face came forward rather than growing down and back, which is what usually happens with poor habits.

The nose isn’t an isolated structure, so when my maxilla came forward and expanded, it naturally changed the angle and projection of my nose. Symmetry and shape also improved in this area due to techniques I applied, working on muscles connected to the bones, further modifying the nasal shape and bone contours. My mandible adapted to this new structure, it was pulled forward as well because it’s directly tied to the maxilla, improving my jawline and correcting previous retrusion. These changes improved facial balance and were mechanically driven, not the result of passive, age-related development.

My bite was off, and that doesn’t just “fix itself” with puberty. If puberty corrected bites, there would be no orthodontists. My teeth were crooked and at 17, every orthodontist said I needed braces for years. But what I did was different: I changed the underlying cause. I realigned the forces in my mouth and fixed it naturally with no intervention. Perfect tongue posture and proper swallowing patterns created consistent upward and forward pressure on the palate, widening it significantly more than the normal 1 mm per year until 18 years old that we would expect from passive growth. This is why we’ve seen the same pattern in John Mew’s twin studies, a famous orthotropist: the twin with proper myofunctional habits develops better facial architecture, even with the same genes and age. My transformation followed the same mechanism.