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       Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: berkeley07
       Date: December 29, 2016, 9:41 pm
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       What can I do about my poor buccal corridors? My smile is very
       narrow and I can see the empty space in the smile. Since I am
       wearing permanent retainers, I might not be able to even use a
       palate expander sadly. Aside from mewing, do I even have any
       hope?
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       Re: Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: Progress
       Date: December 30, 2016, 9:45 am
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       Visibility of buccal corridors when smiling is directly
       correlated with how wide and forward your palate is. In ideal
       conditions a combination of facepulling, NCR and mewing may fix
       this over time. Are you sure you need to wear retainers even if
       you're mewing?
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       Re: Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: berkeley07
       Date: December 30, 2016, 9:43 pm
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       > Visibility of buccal corridors when smiling is directly
       correlated with how wide and forward your palate is. In ideal
       conditions a combination of facepulling, NCR and mewing may fix
       this over time. Are you sure you need to wear retainers even if
       you're mewing?
       >
       >
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       That was my thinking, wouldn't my permanent retainers make any
       progress from mewing impossible? I am only wearing permanent
       retainers in my front teeth (incisors), so I could should still
       be able to expand the rest of my teeth, right?
       Regardless, would permanent retainers also make it impossible to
       use a palate expander since it wouldn't fit in my mouth?
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       Re: Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: Progress
       Date: December 31, 2016, 3:01 pm
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       Your tongue is a natural palate expander. If you can fit it
       between your teeth, use it. Retainers hold your teeth in place,
       not the maxilla.
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       Re: Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: berkeley07
       Date: January 2, 2017, 8:37 am
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       --- Quote from: Progress link ---
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       > Your tongue is a natural palate expander. If you can fit it
       between your teeth, use it. Retainers hold your teeth in place,
       not the maxilla.
       >
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       I understand this, but I am still having trouble keeping my
       mouth shut when I am sleeping, I don't mouth breathe but my
       mouth falls open.
       Are there no appliances I can use to speed up this process?
       Palate expander, etc?
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       Re: Buccal Corridors
   DIR By: Progress
       Date: January 2, 2017, 5:20 pm
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       --- Quote from: berkeley07 link ---
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       > I understand this, but I am still having trouble keeping my
       mouth shut when I am sleeping, I don't mouth breathe but my
       mouth falls open.
       > Are there no appliances I can use to speed up this process?
       Palate expander, etc?
       >
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       Keeping mouth shut during sleep is mostly a matter of body
       mechanics. You have to keep your head and neck in an angle that
       keeps your jaws shut naturally. Which means tucking your chin in
       and keeping neck straight; the opposite of the head forward
       posture.
       You can achieve this when sleeping on your side, but it's most
       optimal when sleeping on your back with head and neck elevated a
       bit. If your maxilla is recessed, you probably can't sleep on
       your back without snoring / sleep apnea though.
       In addition, good tongue posture should create a slight vacuum
       in your mouth which helps to keep it shut. As for palate
       expanders I have no experience about them, but a variety of
       appliances exist.
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