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Gonial Angle - Can it Upswing?
DIR By: MeltedFace
Date: January 17, 2017, 2:41 am
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Wondering how anyone has done with getting a leveled gonial
angle... what methods did you see good results? Or what are you
curious about that might work?
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Re: Gonial Angle - Can it Upswing?
DIR By: angelo22
Date: January 17, 2017, 4:47 pm
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First of all, it is definitely possible:
HTML https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15153856
HTML https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10583739
HTML https://www.researchgate.net/publication/38088461_Influence_of_edentulousness_on_gonial_angle_ramus_and_condylar_height
HTML http://www.ajodo.org/article/0002-9416(54)90127-X/abstract
HTML https://www.hindawi.com/journals/tswj/2014/254932/
These studies focus on how edentulism causes an increase in the
gonial angle in elderly subjects.
This may seem counter-intuitive, but it's caused by a decreased
in ramus and condylar height (just my opinion here, but I'd say
caused by atrophy of the masticatory muscles, specifically the
masseter?).
Knowing that remodeling of the skull bones does occur in old
people is a guarantee that you can have it, too.
My, and I assume your goal is to decrease it instead, by moving
the maxilla and letting the mandible slowly adapt and remodel to
mantain the occlusion :)
I'm personally very optimistic, because I feel daily a pressure
in the right TMJ area and sometimes the left one (I have a
slight asymmetry, with my right side a little lower than the
left one).
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Re: Gonial Angle - Can it Upswing?
DIR By: MeltedFace
Date: January 17, 2017, 11:39 pm
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That's really good to read about... what are you doing to
correct it? I'm asymmetrical too :(
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Re: Gonial Angle - Can it Upswing?
DIR By: angelo22
Date: January 19, 2017, 7:52 am
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I'm currently only practicing correct oral and head posture,
along with some facepulling. I'm using a belt and my thumbs, but
I do both very gently and lightly for about 30 minutes a day
(usually in the evening, when I'm watching something at the
computer).
About the pressure in the right TMJ area... it's not always
there, usually it manifests after face pulling or a long day of
tongue posture, but I've noticed it fades away when I don't push
the palate. That's good news for me, cause it means I haven't
stupidly hurt my TMJ, and I think the condyle adapting to the
maxilla. Anyway, since I'd prefer to do things slowly than risk
getting some real TMJ pain, I'm slowing down with face pulling
and NCR these days :)
Am I getting progress from all this? I think so, I'm under the
impression that my chin is slightly more forward than before!
Unfortunately, I didn't take profile pictures when I started, so
yeah... But I've taken them now, and then I'll see how much I'll
improve in a year or two!
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