03/05/2023
Plummeting testosterone is shrinking our jaws.
When you stimulate the palate physically signals stem cells to form bone.
Tension placed across the mid suture of the roof of the mouth leads to bone deposition.
It’s one of the most satisfying parts of my job to watch these sutures open up and develop bone in our patients.
It changes the face, but the fantastic changes to their breathing, posture, and sleep is most remarkable.
It’s a very smart process. The surface of the upper jaw-bone will add to the volume of the roof of the mouth where the teeth are held. While the bone that lines the nasal reduced from the nasal side. This increases the vertical size of the nasal cavity.
That creates more volume in the nasal sinuses and more bone to create a wide dental arch.
It’s a hungry process. You are literally stretching the upper jaw bone to signal it to grow.
7 days after palatal expansion, initial bone formation can be detected in the suture gap. whilst at 30 days it resulted half-filled with newly-formed bone tissue.
S*x hormones stimulate directly or indirectly the formation of bone.
Environmental influences and congenital factors are both known to have negative affects on craniofacial growth. Animal studies have shown that suppressing testosterone decreases jaw dimensions.
Testosterone suppression affects the craniofacial growth in higher proportions than the suppression of the estrogen.
In both normal craniofacial growth, the body needs plenty of vitamin D in order to produce testosterone. Here we have the mechanism for crooked teeth today. Lowered vitamin D slows the hormonal push for growth in the maxilla and the rest of jaw and head.
For kids, they need plenty of vitamin D, so that their body can mineralize strong wide jaw bones.
If you are undergoing palatal expansion therapy, then checking your vitamin D may be prudent.
Otherwise, plenty of sunshine, fatty quality animal foods, and supplementation where necessary.
Would you consider palatal expansion therapy?