The goal is to remodel the skull
These biomechanics are kind of like a natural 'facelift'. You're not merely working the muscles, you are moving all of the bones in the skull to a better position.
Sometimes friends that know a little of my story come up to me and say something like… “Hey Ken… I found this other guy who does this jaw exercise a bit like you.”
Or i’ve probably had over a dozen people tell me that I should take a look at this Jawliner product as it is similar to what I do.
And I typically react with a “oh really that’s interesting.” Meanwhile I am thinking that they are clueless. lol
This thing is not about getting a better jawline, although that should be one of the side benefits. Rather it is about remodeling your entire skull.
What does it mean to ‘remodel the skull’?
By this i mean to completely change the shape of your entire skull. The face, the profile, the entire thing. You are trying to give it more definition and actually move the bones around.
Typically it makes you more youthful and attractive in appearance.
And the only way that you did this traditionally was via some type of surgery like plastic surgery.
For example a ‘facelift’. Here is a before & after of one of the best plastic surgeons in LA.
By ‘lifting’ the face the main bone they are trying to act upon is the ‘maxilla’ bone. That is this bone in green here.
It is the bone that model scouts know very well because it is the positioning of this bone that makes for the difference between an average model and someone who is going to be world-class.
Like Kate Moss here.
Facelifts do not ‘really’ work
The higher you move the maxilla up the more you will get the tight cheekbones and cat-like eyes of a Kate Moss.
But you don’t move the maxilla in isolation of course. Because it is connected to all of the other bones.
And this is why it is an illusion to think that facelifts actually work. Because it is impossible to do surgery on the entire skull and move everything artificially.
Which is why you typically find these facelift patients looking horrible in 5-10 years. Because it wasn’t structurally stable to hold up as they aged (ie. further ground down their teeth).
How does one ‘remodel the skull’?
There is only one true way in my view to ‘remodel the skull’. And that is via these biomechanics.
All of the bones in the skull (approx 27 of them) move and get spaced out better. They become more symmetric.
For example have a look at the change in my face/skull from late 2014 to early 2016 above. This is not a mere strengthening of my jaw muscles.
This is a complete remodeling of the skull with higher cheekbones, sharper angles, etc.
Do people that “Mew” remodel their skull?
When I look at all these social media posts of people that ‘Mew’…. 95% of them have no true remodeling of the skull.
Like this guy above… yes he improved his skin. But other than that I would say the guy achieved nothing. He simply took a picture of himself in different light.
Has the shape of the eyes changed? No. And the shape of the eyes are what tells you if the maxilla moved.
Look at the shape of my eyes in the pic above. They changed quite a bit.
Most times these “Mewers” are just looking at themselves from different angles and in different lights like my example above. But occasionally I do see someone that has truly remodelled their skull a bit.
And for them i am willing to bet that they are using a Myobrace or something like it. Note that Mike Mew recommends to some patients to wear a Myobrace and I’m willing to bet that these are the folks who are getting some true facial remodelling.