Does Mewing Actually Work?

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What is mewing? Does mewing lead to a better jawline? Does mewing actually work at all? Doctor Gary Linkov explains mewing and all you need to know about the trend.

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00:00 - Intro
00:22 - What is mewing?
02:44 - Orthotropics VS Orthodontics
04:19 - Does mewing actually work?
08:13 - Mewing risks
09:15 - Takeaways

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[Tiagotaf]

My cat is always meowing and her jawline is perfect.

[blobster]

As an orthodontist i often get questions about mewing. Im going to send my patients this video for a more comprehensive information. As always, incredible videos doc!

[MrFalcon]

Probably the most effective way of having a jawline more defined is going down on bodyfat percentage.
First time I saw mewing I thought right away that even if it worked to an extent, one would already need to have a decently formed jawline to begin with.

[imperialstew]

I started it purely because it's still proper tongue posture and would encourage nose breathing as opposed to mouth breathing. I already had a decent jawline though. I've done it for about a year (started around when I turned 20) and have noticed minimal jawline changes that could have also just been a result of dropping my bfp following fitness and nutrition goals. It's also worth noting that the posture itself pulls the area under your jaw in a little as well as closing your jaw to the point where your teeth are almost touching squares your face more. If you take a side look at your face in the mirror and switch between holding the posture and fully relaxing it you can see what I mean.

I've trained it to the point where I believe I still hold the posture when I'm asleep (fall asleep holding the tongue/jaw posture and wake up still holding it) which has forced me to breath out of my nose while I sleep, leading to better sleep and my throat doesn't dry out in dryer seasons from mouth breathing. If I'm congested though it can be hard to fall asleep because I have to break the posture a little to breath out of my mouth. Overall I think it's been mildly beneficial, took about 4 days to hold it without thinking about it, I don't regret it. The largest benefit has been the nose breathing. I also don't over chew.

I would be interested in seeing a large scale study on how effective it is when you start in childhood but good luck convincing kids to try to hold the posture every day, many already sit like gargoyles.

[Orthotropics]

Dear Dr Linkov, thank you so much for your interest and having gain such a good understanding of the core issue. I greatly appreciate the opportunity to chat openly with you and demonstrate some really impressive outcomes from these methods, especially when combined with appliances. It is through discussion, debate and engagement that we find new developments and improvements. It would be an honour to do a collaboration.
Best wishes, Mike

[Aaron-bdsj]

Great vid, very fair and balanced.

To be fair to the Mews, a lot of what they teach is taught in many dental clinics under the label of "myofunctional therapy".

And the Mews have also talked that their preferred age to start intervention is 7 to 9 years old and that changes after puberty without appliances or surgery is minimal at best.

Again, great take.

[untype]

And for those who do mewing as a natural position all their lives, without having heard of it? This was my case, and I've seen other people too who are surprised to learn that it's a "technique" and that not everyone has this natural position.

[extracelestial]

Dr. Linkov is the best! He made it through this whole video without making any jokes or cracking up. Then again, there are absolutely people who will benefit from the information he provided.

[clairelynch]

I used to work fot Professor Mew in the late 1980's. I was a trainee technician, making braces as per his direction for the patient's (mainly young). He was a good boss and much fun on a Friday - always cracking open a bottle of Sherry. I saw the results of his work and being only 18 and had my own conventional orthodontic treatment with 4 extractions plus 4 wisdom teeth extracted - he explained how unnecessary the extractions were. I have many gaps as a 51 year old adult and my facial structure would have looked very different without the extraction. ❤ to Pr Mew

[abbey.havens]

I noticed I started having more fat underneath my jaw (forgot the name) once I stopped working out. You know I got rid of it? By working out again! I think people underestimate how much just keeping a healthily lifestyle does for you when trying to fit the unrealistic standards. It may not be like the models, but I'll be happy knowing I still have a perfectly working jaw in 40 years and am healthy.

[TryMarked]

Also to consider is that even if mewing doesn’t show any change to your face is that, if you just leave your tongue on the bottom of your mouth over time it will cause some bad side effects. So even if mewing doesn’t have a major effect on what you look like it does keep your face from looking worse

[Marqan]

It's important not to confuse the widespread trend, and whatever influencers are doing, with what the Mews are saying and doing.
On social media the fad to ruin your jaw joint to look slightly better is strongly against what the Mews are advocating for.

As you said, their main disclaimer is that mewing has limited effect for adults, especially without applying it properly, with a professional. What they are strongly advocating for is children to use mewing (often with appliances) to avoid irreversible and possibly damaging operations.
A lot of their exercises are just generally healthy, and make you pay attention to things that matter for other than looks. For example they have an exercise where you tilt your head a bit forward (from neutral) and tuck your chin in: a lot of people, especially ones that work on computers, often have their head in the opposite of that position (tilt head backward, and push their head forward), which of course leads to neck and backpain. Same for tongue posture.

I think all (at least most) the negatives you said here were addressing problems with the popular trend, not what Mewing is actually about.
Which from one perspective is fair and evne good, because more people are exposed to the trend than to the content Mike Mew and his team, but with that you also necessarily misrepresent mewing, and orthotropics in general.

I'm not even advocating for orthotropics, I have no idea about it, but it seems like it's consistently attacked, misrepresented and/or disregarded for no good reasons. Unfortunately it's also used and advocated for because of the wrong reasons, like on many social media channels.

[World_of_VI]

I used to have a nicely defined jawline in my teens. In my twenties I started to do heavy workout, increasing my body weight up to 10 kilos on muscle mass. I always had very low body fat (still do) and, when I increased my weight because of gym workout, I lost some of that defined jawline. My neck became very large, and overall my jaw doesn't look as pretty as it once was lol so i grew a beard 😂 problem solved
Edit: I moved to Japan and I must shave my beard for work. RIP

[WH]

I noticed that over the past two years I was clenching my jaw VERY tightly in varying positions during sleep, and it would often wake me up, at which point I would take note of it. (Sometimes clenching to the right, sometimes to the left, sometimes center and down.) I have recently implemented this mewing tongue-placement technique and it now comes automatically to me at night, whether I am asleep or just reading and relaxing in bed. It has been a game-changer in that regard. When I was clenching I was having horrendous jaw fatigue and buzzing sensations during the day that were extremely uncomfortable and sometimes distressing, due to the strange sensations it caused in my head, neck and jaw. It has now become automatic, all with very little practice! It will be interesting to see what, if any other changes, over time present themselves. ;0)

[clementinetufts]

My daughter is six and is in oral/facial myology therapy with a speech therapist, as well as physical therapy for congenital hypotonia that affects her posture.

A lot of the exercises to improve her breathing and swallowing are similar to the mewing techniques. She is six, though. So in theory, starting this young, she will be able to improve her breathing and swallowing.

I discovered mewing after researching my daughter’s needs. It’s interesting that oral/facial myology therapy IS now being used with children.

I think it’s a good thing that we now have awareness of breathing posture and exercises to increase our proprioception of oral/facial muscles.

[CyberSurvivor]

I've been practicing proper tongue posture and pushing my tongue towards the roof of my mouth for about 4-6 years, long before it was a tiktok trend, starting around age 16-18. I've noticed almost zero changes in my jawline, however my jaw pops less, and I don't feel like I have to pull my jaw back so far to close my teeth together. My permanent retainer came out at the age of 19, almost 3 years ago, and I lost the upper removable retainer very soon after getting my braces removed at 16. I've had almost no malocclusion and have not had any teeth or jaw issues since. I believe practicing orthotropics is partially responsible for my positive results without retainers while my jaw finished developing.

On the other hand, over time my jawline has become less defined. the culprit? weight gain. body fat %. if you want a more defined jawline, lose facial fat, and push the back of your tongue up towards your soft palette while moving your larynx up when at rest (the last part is an immediate change, you'll also notice an adams apple shift up if you have one. I've done this for years from when I was overweight as a kid to hide a double chin. it's entirely voluntary muscle positioning, no bone changes or muscle hypertrophy exercises needed, just simple facial posture). Any "looksmaxing" claims are likely BS.

[catherine_]

It was a great surprise for me to learn (some time ago) that not everyone just rests their tongue at the roof of their mouth. I mean, when the mouth is closed, there is just enough space inside to squish the tongue in the mouth cavity, it takes all the space! And it takes some force to curl it inside or do anything else besides let it lie there. So it sounded weird. But at the same time tongue placement sounds just like mouth posture, so there may be some truth in that. Tongue positioning during formative age probably does influence face growth, so there must be a little truth to that. I don't think you can easily make a child swallow correctly, for example. So... yeah. Sounds like mewing is just misapplied.

[broken_rebirth]

As someone who's done face yoga for several years, where mewing is a part of it, I can say when I stop doing it, jowling starts again and my face goes south for the winter. So in terms of teaching you facial muscle awareness and correcting your posture overall it's amazing (as face yoga teaches you, just like regular yoga, to sit up tall and roll your shoulders back, don't hunch etc.) . I used to have such a tight jaw that it dragged my right side down significantly more than the left. I can feel the difference as I used to grind my teeth on my left side. I also noticed improvement to my neck and cheeks being higher when I worked on relaxing the muscles in the face that are propagandistically pulling my face DOWN. BUT I have always had a strong jaw and a cut side profile. No mewing or face yoga is going to get someone that. It will simply tighten and tone facial muscles, or relax them if you focus on that. That's it. And it takes being consistent a few minutes daily.

[oddy_gg]

i remember this starting like 10 years ago. since then i unconciously "reset" my tongue up my gum.
Can't say it changed anything of my jawline (was already 20). But it helped against mouth breathing.

[AndNowIWrite]

I tried mewing as a form of facial exercise along with biting down on one of those hand stress balls (mine is egg shaped) and within a month I no longer had to crack my jaw to open my mouth. TMJ from an auto accident years ago created a locked jaw upon waking every morning and often when eating. Im pleased to say its been about eight months since my jaw has locked. I do these exercises about 3 times a week now. Thank you for the video!