Oralift: An anti-aging miracle? Or just a weaker version of a flat mouthguard?

In our view it does the same things a flat mouthguard does, but slower.

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A number of people have asked me if Reviv is like Oralift.

The first time it happened I had a look at their site as I’d never heard of it before.

And I marvelled at it… “wow they made it look all fancy!! But it does the exact same thing as any other mouthguard.”

Ok today i’m gonna share some thoughts on Oralift.

What is Oralift?

Oralift is a mouthguard positioned towards anti-aging. And seems to pretty specifically target women as all its content and ads are of women.

Here are what it claims to do:

• Reduce facial aging signs (lines, sagging, etc.)

• Improve facial symmetry

• Increase vertical facial height (temporarily)

• Support natural collagen production

• Improve TMJ and jaw alignment in some cases

It was founded by Dr. Nick Mohindra, a London-based dentist, and his wife.

And basically it is a non-fitted appliance that stays on your lower teeth without any boil & bite, etc. Which is pretty interesting if it holds well.

How you wear it

​The Oralift device is typically worn for two sessions every third day, with each session's duration gradually increasing over time:

1. Starting Point: Begin with 5-minute sessions, twice every third day. ​

2. Gradual Increase: As your facial muscles adapt, you can gradually extend each session's duration. The aim is to reach up to one hour per session, twice every third day. ​

3. Rest Periods: It's crucial to have two consecutive rest days after each day of wearing the device to allow your muscles to recover and adapt.

So you wear it for a small amount of time and don’t wear it at all at night. Man!! That is wussy speed! :)

The business model

Oralift operates as a DIY product or you can do it with a ‘trained professional’.

They call their trained professionals ‘aestheticians’. And to become one there is essentially only a single requirement…. that you take their paid training course.

No medical or dental degree required.

And if you choose to do it DIY they have lots of a-la-carte support options.

Which I think is kind of cool and is something I thought about perhaps for the future. But I just don’t have time for for now.

In general I like how they think from a business perspective.

How do they say it works?

According to them the theory is based on neuroplasticity and muscle memory.

By wearing the device for short periods (like 2 hours every 3rd day), it stimulates the facial muscles and encourages soft tissue remodeling.

This supposedly improves blood flow, muscle tone, skin quality, and even reduces fine lines or sagging.

Unlike orthodontic appliances that apply force to move teeth or bone, Oralift is more about triggering a reflexive response in the muscles.

I find it so interesting how we all (Oralift, Myobrace, Reviv, PosturePro, etc.) describe the exact same process in so many different ways lol.

Do I Think It Works?

Here is for the good news… of course it works!!

Because it abides by two basic principles:

• Adds vertical between the teeth

• Unlocks the occlusion

But the problem is if you wear just for max a couple hours a day and not at night then it’s going to be very slow.

Add to that the fact that you’re only wearing it every third day and you are talking about a mega slow process.

With Reviv I often say wear it all night and then also 2-3 hours during the day. Which at the beginning is often hard as hell for many folks! lol

But then it gets easy.

And then at some point you need to do lots of stretching to push further beyond.

How is Oralift Different from Reviv?

Let me break this down into a few main blocks:

1: The appliance

• The appliance works a lot like a flat plane splint, except it has the advantage that it isn’t fitted to the lower teeth. So it will allow the teeth to continue to move over time without having to change appliances.

• The Reviv will still probably be much faster because of its design. I’ve always found a mouthguard to be far faster at this process than flat plane splints, which i used to use for years back in 2016-2019.

2: How you wear it?

• Oralift is worn only during the day for a couple hours max and only on every third day.

• Reviv is worn to sleep and 2-3 hours during the day. So the process will be far faster with Reviv.

3: How it works?

• They talk about neuroplasticity and muscle memory, which i think is complete BS.

• They simply don’t know that this process inflates the skull because nobody is breaking through skin (the way I do everyday) since nobody is going fast enough with the process.

• Also they appear to be clueless about curve of spee and posterior open bite…most likely because nobody is going fast enough to open an an open bite. In fact I bet the reason they go so slow is exactly to avoid the open bite, which essentially means the person is regressing the vast majority of their progress like a hamster wheel.

4: The price

• They appear to be charging $200 - 500 for their appliance. Plus expensive sessions with an ‘aesthetician’.

• I charge $25 for R1 (RevivOne) and $80 for R2 (RevivTwo) and use a community approach, which costs just $75/year.

5: The vision

• They believe they will help older women have a better complexion.

• I believe these biomechanics will change the world more than anything in its history by being proven to be the true root cause of aging, pretty much all disease, and beauty.

So yeah while our appliance might do the same thing… our understanding and vision differ A LOT!

Some Further Thoughts on Anti-Aging

I am not surprised that a mouthguard brand has popped up in the anti-aging segment.

For the simple reason that they will figure out that a mouthguard is probably by far the best product in the anti-aging category by a longshot.

Lightyears ahead of Bryan Johnson and his Blueprint.

And lightyears ahead of all these supplements and exercises that Peter Attia and Andrew Huberman are pushing.

I was considering creating a sub-brand for the anti-aging use case to prove this point in the coming years…but then I decided it will just need to be a side benefit.

It will be more fun targeting the young Looksmaxxers instead, which we are doing with our ‘Remodel’ brand, which will launch soon. But will only be sold via our creator partners as a ‘co-brand’.

Because at the end of the day I don’t know much about looksmaxxing.

Anyway, time to get back on topic.

Our new R2 (RevivTwo) pictured above is expected to be on presale within the week

Closing Thoughts

All-in-all I give Oralift credit for tapping the adult segment as most other mouthguard brands like Myobrace and ToothPillow largely avoid it.

Plus they noticed the anti-aging element of these biomechanics, which is something I’d noticed back around 2016 or so. And they are one of the few mouthguard brands that really target this, which is smart.

But I do think that they have a very small fraction of the understanding of how this works and how deep it goes as compared to Reviv (ie. me).

And this probably relates to the fact that it was founded by a dentist who probably wants to avoid people getting a posterior open bite.

As a result their program is very “wuss” and will leave people regressing most of their results when they go to sleep each night. Because any improvement in curve of spee will mostly flatten back out.

There you have it… Reviv knocks out Oralift!! Yeahhhhh!