My bite is uneven... will a mouthguard help?

Yes it will. And the reason is because the physics are that the skull inflates & deflates.

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This is another one i get lately… Does Reviv fix an assymetric bite?

And again my answer is yes.

And today i’ll explain why.

What do we mean by an uneven bite?

Basically i’m referring to when the teeth do not line up correctly as in this pic above.

When this is the case my experience is that the jaw almost never opens in a straight line. Rather it will often loop one direction, which i associate with soft tissue issues (and probably TMJ is mispositioned).

The orthodontists love to offer to straighten everything right up with braces. This is definitely NOT what you should do.

There are skeletal and soft tissue issues going on that the braces will do absolutely nothing to correct.

So you will have most likely made your problem much worse.

In the early days I used to think things were collapsing on one side?

For example on a pic like this one below it would be logical to think that perhaps things are collapsing on the left side (when looking at the person).

After all that’s kind of what it looks like.

And Starecta used to talk about things in this way. That things collapse where you’ve lost dental height.

So back in the day i’d try to prop things up on that collapsed side thinking i could reverse the collapse and tilt things back the other way. A bit like a seesaw.

But after these experiments I concluded it didn’t work that way.

In reality the best way to explain how it worked is my deflating skull

When you think of something deflating like a balloon the physics are completely different.

The balloon may deflate more on the left side on the right, but putting some type of structural support to hold up the left side doesn’t really achieve anything.

When something deflates a bit more in certain areas like the balloon above it does not really mean you should focus on those areas.

Rather the way to fix it is to inflate the damn thing.

And therefore the best way to fix an uneven bite is by inflating the skull

Based on my ten years of collapsing and then fixing my skull… this inflating skull above really is the closest physics to what I observed on myself.

You are using the Reviv to stretch the soft tissue that surrounds the skull and it slowly inflates, which then allows the cranial bones to space out better and revert to a more symmetric position.

As i inflate my skull on a daily basis for several years now I am literally ripping through the skin daily. On my forehead, scalp, sometimes on my cheeks and jaw.

There is only one type of physics that would logically cause my scalp to rip. Expansion.

And as this expansion happens the bite evens out and comes into symmetry. Something i’ve seen on myself numerous times, so i’m not just talking theory here.

But it takes time.

My alternating sides experiment

So one experiment that I did for about 6 months in 2022 was with my polymorph clipons. These are basically like mini-splints that i would make with the moldable plastic, polymorph (that you see above).

Basically polymorph gets soft when you heat it up (in boiling water) and then gets hard when you let it cool.

It takes like 5 minutes to make one clipon by putting it on the back few teeth when its soft and making the top flat, then letting it dry till it hardens.

It was very hard to make both the left and right side clipons even. Rather when I made them for both sides, i only ever seemed to have my upper teeth make contact on one side.

So i figured ‘screw it’ and i just wore it on one side since that was the only side making contact anyway.

Now if things worked like a seesaw then this would start to screw my skull and neck a lot because everything on the unsupported side would collapse.

But that is not what happened at all. Rather everything kept improving.

So then i decided to wear the clipon on the other side thinking that perhaps it only works on one side because that is the collapsed side. But no, it worked exactly the same!

NTI-tss splint that dentists use

And so then i even tried the front teeth like a ‘NTI-tss splint’ (that TMJ dentists use sometimes) thinking.. “hmmm maybe it needs to be supporting the back teeth and things will collapse if im only making contact on the front.”

After all… back in 2014 Starecta had drilled into my head that there is some kind of ‘molar lever’ on the back teeth.

But no. The front teeth worked as well!

And so that is part of how I arrived at my conclusion that there are only two rules to inflate the skull:

1- Add vertical height
2- Don’t lock an occlusion

You see.. it was a process of elimination while experimenting on my own teeth and skull! Hahahaha

Closing thoughts

If the skull inflates than the way to fix assymetry is to simply inflate it.

Which is what a simple mouthguard like the Reviv One does.

No need for braces. No need for fancy surgeries.

All of that shit will end up making you sorry later. Trust me.. i’ve seen a number of folks that fell for that trap over the years.

Just be patient, stick to the biomechanical process of the mouthguard and some stretching… and you will be the little pig that made his house out of bricks :)