I predict a bad legacy for orthodontics

Because of the damage that it will be found to be causing

I foresee a bad future for the profession of orthodontics.

And today i’m going to explain my view on why that is.

First…. what do orthodontists do?

Orthodontists do a variety of treatments that include:

• Braces: metal, ceramic/clear, lingual

• Aligners

• Palate expanders

• Functional appliances: Herbst, etc.

• Elastics

• Headgear

• Jaw surgery: they don’t do the surgery themselves but rather cooperate with maxillofacial surgeons on it

What is consistent with every item in this list?

Answer: They are all wrong. They will ALL mess a person up in my view.

Why I think pretty much everything they do is wrong

Because they violate the biomechanics that dictate our structure. The curve of spee (pic above) that I like to talk about will flatten.

As I show in the time lapse video of a person that did aligners in this earlier article (below).

The Flattening of the Curve of Spee

Moving teeth around artificially is an exercise in futility. And it will simply reduce the structural integrity of the skull, thereby deflating it.

Which will in turn cause the skeleton to twist and will probably create cognitive and neurological issues longer-term.

I am basically saying that orthodontics is like paying a person to put your skull in a vice and convince you that that is a good thing.

In the future we will see it for what it was.. crushing a person’s skull and twisting their skeleton. Thus causing them to age much faster and be far more susceptible to a plethora of diseases.

In time I predict more and more people will see things my way

I estimate that 5000+ people have purchased Reviv to this point.

Our Skool community is 1100+ strong and very active.

Many of them were victims of orthodontics. And through Reviv they’re realizing that it was indeed the ortho that was the root cause of their years of physical and mental health issues.

They are seeing the same exact patterns in numerous others and trading notes with them. And realizing “What!!!!!! My orthodontics has been ruining my life!!!!”

As that fire grows… at some point it is gonna erupt like a volcano.

These folks are talking about this stuff with their friends, their families… some of them are writing posts about it.

I think orthodontics will be one day seen as the deadliest invention in the history of mankind

You might be sitting there thinking…

“Hold on Ken.. now you’re taking this a bit too far. Are you trying to say that orthodontics has been more deadly than any weapon?”

Isn’t that attributed to something like the nuclear bomb?

Well… let’s run some quick math.

The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs caused over 200,000 deaths. The Holocaust was estimated to have resulted in the deaths of 11 - 12 million people.

ChatGPT estimates that about 818 million people have done orthodontics now or in the past.

ChatGPT’s estimate on how many folks did ortho

And let’s put some conservative estimates…

• I would say that at least 50% of them died earlier than they should have due to the orthodontics.. or 409 million people.

• I would further say that 10% of them probably died of direct consequences of the orthodontics and far sooner then they ‘should’ have.. or 82 million people.

Both of these numbers dwarf both the nuclear bomb and the Holocaust.

Closing thoughts

I worked at Groupon back in 2011.

At the time it was a very sexy and popular company to be in.

And I was proud of the work we were doing as my team was 100+ strong and growing 10-20% every month for a period of time.

Unfortunately fate has not been kind to Groupon.

Today Groupon’s valuation is something like 1% of it’s valuation in 2011, which was $13 billion.

I am no longer proud to tell anyone that I worked at Groupon. The last time I told someone i’d worked there they kind of laughed and cracked a joke about it.

This is kind of the future I predict for orthodontists.

Let’s see if i’m right.