I was waiting to write an article on this, but it is truly too important an idea to wait until the articles are complete. I would like to start off by clarifying that the purpose of expansion devices is for anyone who simply does not have enough space on the top of their crowded/narrow/high palate to fit the rear of their tongue between their back wisdom teeth/molars without pain and difficulty. I am not discouraging using an expander to get all the expansion that you need, just imploring users not to neglect training their tongue posture while waiting around for an expander.

1. The main reason adults fail to see changes is because of how much difficulty adults have in changing their central nervous system to applying the proper tongue/jaw/body posture. Children change rapidly because their posture isn't as solidified in their subconscious and they can alter it much more rapidly and with much less effort than an adult. Adult cranial sutures do not fuse. Although growth may be less than of a child, we know a suture site can produce up to 1mm of growth per week. To alter the whole skull will take time, but the main roadblock for adults is not fixed growth but fixed posture.

2. Everyone must be encouraged to keep trying to have proper tongue posture. I know, personally, that it can be extremely difficult and discouraging to not be able to figure out if you are doing it properly. There is no universally proper tongue posture for an improperly developed jaw. Depending on where you are lacking development, you will need to consciously apply pressure where necessary. You may need to separate your back molars more to give the back of your tongue more space. You may need to push forward and up to rotate the maxillary process. You may push hard up and discover that once side feels more pressure, telling you that you have asymmetry that will take time and effort and pushing to correct. When your jaw is completely perfectly set, which most modern humans do not have, then you will have a proper posture that you can hold for the rest of your life. Until then, your proper posture is to put pressure wherever needs it.

3. This will take time to learn. It took over a year of conscious and subconscious attention to learn what was going in my own mouth. It wasn't a sudden realization, it was a gradual process and I am constantly getting better at it. However, I am now at the point where I KNOW that my tongue is in the correct place and I can feel the pressure being exerted across my entire skull. I can hear the movement at the sutures with a hard push. I found out about tongue posture/scaffolding from Mike Mew almost 2 years ago, I gave up and tried again many times, and now I am finally 100% trained. If you put in more consistent time and effort, you can do it even more quickly

4. You ARE experiencing changes with the pressure that you apply, do not be discouraged when you do not see results in the mirror every day. I really want to show you the absolutely incredible changes that I have found in one user online. Seriously, this person went from poor development to looking like a starting quarterback - their proper tongue posture completely reshaped their sickly adult skull into a wide jawed forward maxilla good looking man. Out of respect I am waiting for them to give me permission to use their pictures. There are two BreakTheMatrix users that we know of that have shown incredible facial alterations in less than a year. There are Mew patients who have also shown such results, and myofunctional therapists websites have also shown this. In the eventual article I will be posting all of these pictures, likely including my own. In these two years I have not noticed a change in the mirror, but I see a massive change from previous photographs. I am now being cold approached by multiple women when I go out, something has definitely changed to make me look healthier.

5. Complete strangers with no reason to lie or correlate their statements, many of whom have never heard anyone else's experiences, are reporting the same effects from tongue posture. This discounts the possibility of placebo or only specific case changes. Most common experiences include: Improved nasal breathing, no more blocked nostrils, soreness of teeth, face redness in areas of remodeling, improved energy and health, improved symmetry, increased height and muscle mass, increased emotional/mental health, improvement of damaged vision, feeling of movement at sutures (among those who do not know where the sutures are), and of course more tongue space. Also A E S T H E T I C improvements 🙂

6. Your body posture must be corrected. The body is one entity and functions as such. Your skull will not be corrected and your tongue will not be in the proper position if the rest of your spine is out of alignment. This is the next area in which we need to improve our understanding. Meningeal tissue goes from inside your skull, down your spine,and to your pelvis. Issues anywhere in this system will cause issues with your skull. Yes, I just multiplied your workload 10x from fixing your skull to fixing your entire spinal system. It is completely necessary, you can only improve one area so much before you will hit a roadblock caused by issues elsewhere in your spinal system. When at rest, your ears should be right over your shoulders, your pelvis should have no tilt front/back/left/right, and your toes should have healthy spaces between them. Everything must be corrected, and none of it can be forced. This will take time

7. You are correcting your body to where it was supposed to be in the first place. You are not becoming more functional, symmetrical, or good looking that you are supposed to be. You, and almost all modern humans, are less properly developed than you are supposed to be. This being the case, you can be fully confident that your body will cooperate the entire time and is actively attempting to repair your lack of development even without your conscious attention. You and your physical body are working together to make changes.

I originally intended to have tips for posture correction here, but this has already run on very long. I intend to elaborate on everything in articles, but I unfortunately cannot give a timeline of when they will be ready. Regardless they will have to be updated and edited.