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Patrick's avatar

I remember reading something a very long time ago about the ideal face posture, back when I was more into yoga and Buddhism. The face for meditation and yoga is to completely relax the face with the tongue lightly resting on the roof of the mouth and the lips gently touching.

It sounds very similar to what you are doing. Basically without the extra dental height you can put your mouth into all kinds of compromised positions. But with the additional height you will basically naturally assume this ideal position, always.

When you start looking at the mind body connection it gets even crazier. The connection works both ways and you can fix many mental problems through the correct psychophysical exercises.

Very interesting stuff, I’ll be following your updates!

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You may be one of the few people who will believe this but I recently realized that I walk more uprightly than I have in years (I turned 66 this past Sunday). For some background, I participated in several scholastic athletics in junior and senior high (soccer, wrestling and track). Weight lifting was part of my training and I believe this led to a very correct, upright posture and gait when I was younger. I spent decades as a carpenter and drank a lot of a well known sports drink which, I believe, contributed significantly to serious dental decay due to the citric acid content. As a result, I recently had to have my upper teeth replaced by a prosthesis supported by dental implants (think permanent dentures). My dentist (who BTW won an award in my state for having the most continuing ed hours of ANY dentist in the state and probably knows more than the average bear) suggested that we "open up my bite" with the new teeth. I addition to changing the spacing they also don't occlude the same as my original equipment. This seems to be exactly what you are saying and it seems that is the explanation for the change/restoration of my posture. Whatdayathink?

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