The two dimensions of skull remodelling
One (inflating) is a lever, the other (how things visibly change) is pure chance
There’s a ton of looksmaxxers out there flashing their before and after transformations.
Some of them have a lot of legitimate change.
Some of them are more a function of lighting, angle and neck positioning.
But today I want to break down how I view remodelling because I think it will clarify why I still consider myself the king of this game.
There are two dimensions to remodelling in my experience
The two dimensions are based on my theory that the skull & skeleton inflate like a balloon when you improve your biomechanics. Something I talked about here:
And so these two dimensions are:
1- The actual inflating (stretching) of the soft tissue
2- The bones shifting around under the soft tissue as more space is made from dimension 1
Makes sense no?
You stretch the soft tissue through this biomechanical process (ie. mouthguard + stretching) and as a result things have the space to shift around for the better as a result.
The more you inflate… the more things can shift around.
One dimension is a lever, the other is chance
I view the first lever (ie. the inflating) to be a lever that you can control. Meaning that you can wear a mouthguard more, you can spend more time stretching, you can get faster at stretching, etc.
The second lever (the bones shifting around) I consider absolute chance. Meaning that you have no real control over how the bones shift around. Your body will decide based on the compensation pattern it is in and how it is unwinding.
Some people will show very rapid change, whereas others will show slow change. And this honestly probably had very little to do with what they were doing and more to do with one person being luckier in terms of their compensation pattern.
But despite this…. it is natural for a person who shows rapid improvement in their symmetry or jawline to assume that they are ‘better’ at the process.
My experience tells me that they are wrong.
And rather they were just lucky that their compensation pattern allowed them to show visible change faster (ie. they got lucky on dimension 2). Often after this fast change… you will see that most of these folks will more or less plateau for an extended period after.
And the fact that it was luck is provable (in my view) because when others try to do the same exact ‘tricks’ that they do… very few of them will achieve the same result (ie. it’s like a lotto).
I wouldn’t be surprised if 90%+ of the folks following Oscar Patel are finding this out the hard way (particularly the ones that are not using a flat mouthguard).
Because he assumed he had some special skill that others didn’t know when in fact he mainly just got lucky on dimension 2 and is probably only slightly better than average on dimension 1. Let me explain.
Dimension 1 (inflating) is where you need to invest in getting fast
Ever since I first figured out the basics of how these biomechanics worked (back around 2016) I realized that it was the stretching part that you could control.
I would try to stretch specific parts of my face or neck or body… thinking that I could improve that specific section but it never worked that way.
Rather time and again I concluded that if you stretch one part of the body, you essentially stretch the whole thing. For example I would stretch my feet or legs and realize my bite had changed. Or i’d see lines on my face and notice that something had shifted in my face.
And therefore you just need to find the stretch that works the fastest for you.
For me that was my ‘fast method’.
And true speed in my experience always meant stretching and breaking the skin.
For example this is the skin stretching and breaking today (June 22, 2026) around my left ear.
This happens almost everyday these days after i do my stretches.
And this is my right ear.
Note that the skin is also breaking on many other parts of my skull, for example between my eyes, the top of my forehead, the top of my neck where it meets the hairline, etc.
And sometimes it stretches and breaks on various parts of my body as well. For example it happened at my waistline over a period of weeks just recently.
I know some of you are probably thinking to yourself.. “Ken you got Psoriasis dude…”
But I can tell you with 100% certainty that I do not. If I do not do my stretches.. this does not happen. Period.
There is direct cause & effect.
I’ve tested it many times in the earlier days as well. And note that I’m doing my ‘fast method’ on and off for almost 10 yrs.
For example I was breaking thru the skin daily back in November 2024 when I wrote this article:
I have been able to break thru my skin daily for about the past two years or so.
And my skull is ‘inflating’ and remodeling as I do.
I know because I see lines as things shift and note how the shape of my skull and face is changing. I’m slowly putting the angles back in.
Dimension 1 is where the true kings are crowned
So to conclude… it is the people that are stretching/inflating the fastest who in my book are the true kings in this game.
And the very fastest are likely going to be able to stretch and break through the skin relatively consistently as I am.
A fair number of people have already written to me and told me that they do achieve this, but not consistently.
Consistency is, in my experience, a function of how well you ‘feel’ how this works on you skull. There is a cycle to it, which is how my fast method works.
I put a stretch into the system, then I take in slack and take out what I like to call ‘torque’, which i’ve always found to be key to helping nudge the structures of the skull into change faster.
I’ve done this for ~10 years on my body and it has always worked plus/minus the same (ie. the skin always stretched and broke). It also always coincided with the time when my skull remodelled for the better the fastest.
And while it may work slightly differently on some folks… logic dictates that since our skulls and skeletons are all engineered the same… the same process likely works on everyone.
The people that are not breaking through the skin (which is the vast majority of looksmaxxers out there)… are just not going very fast on dimension 1 in my view.
And remember that there is a soft tissue ‘end’
I’ve talked about this in the past, but I think it’s good to iterate it again.
There is an ‘end’ in my experience and I achieved it at least once before. But it was many years ago.
I talked about it in this article which i wrote back in July 2024:
Essentially when you can put a balled up paper towel under your lower lip (as in the above photo) and there is no longer a crease (at the top of the arrows)… you have hit the ‘end’.
Which in my view/experience means the soft tissue is fully inflated and the skeleton and skull are correctly positioned.
Why is this chin area my gauge for the ‘end’?
Well because it’s when i broke thru the skin of this chin area and got rid of the crease that my entire skeleton and skull aligned like it never had before.
And i have a strong feeling the same will be true of every human being.
So it is a race to the ‘end’.
And until you hit the ‘end’… in my book you are not in a position to make any conclusions about the limitations of this process.
Because you ain’t done yet.
And in many cases (based on my experience)… you are probably years away from being done.
Closing thoughts
Today i wanted to clear the air about how I view that this biomechanical game works.
As many folks believe that the person who looks the best in a photo is the best at these biomechanics.
And that is not my experience or view at all. Because these folks simply got lucky on dimension 2 and are still not able to break through the skin on dimension 1 (ie. they are still slow).
Though whoever prefers to continue to believe that can be my guest.
It’s all subjective after all… till someone hits the ‘end’ and demonstrates that they are the true Jedi Knight of this game.
Maybe someone will beat me there.
But from my current vantage point… I highly doubt it ;)
Because even if the person looks good and their skeleton is in relatively good shape… they will still probably find they are years away from being able to get rid of the crease and thus hitting the ‘end’.
And their body still has a lot of ‘inflating’ and remodelling to do before it gets there.
Anyway, as I like to say…. “It’s a game to the end.”