There are of course anatomical differences in the mouth and throat, e.g. narrow passages. Often they are caused by the fact that important growth stimuli were missing in early childhood. A typical example would be mouth breathing, which dissolves the important negative pressure space in the mouth, which is extremely important for the transversal growth of the jaws.
Relief through correct tongue rest position and tongue movement
You mention a crowned, protruding incisor that receives pressure from the FF membrane, the after-effects of which you feel in the morning. This indicates that the teeth had and have considerable positional deviations (crooked teeth). The crown merely concealed this somewhat. It is usually caused by constant tongue pressure against the front teeth, which accompanies every swallowing movement. The teeth must be relieved by a correct tongue rest position and correct movement of the tongue during swallowing. We adjust both with the FaceFormer therapy: The tooth receives pressure until it is inserted into the tooth row and the tongue no longer exerts harmful pressure on the teeth from the inside. Only when this has been achieved do you no longer feel any pressure. Orthodontics also corrects the teeth with such pressure. However, it can never be as well distributed as with FaceFormer therapy. In addition, the cause, the tongue pressure against the teeth, remains. This is exactly what leads to the teeth very often becoming crooked again after orthodontics.
The most important things – Muscle tension, nasal breathing, correct movement
We can only marginally influence the grown narrow throat space. However, we do manage the most important things, the tension of muscles and tissues in the mouth/throat, nasal breathing and the adjustment of correct movements in the mouth/throat. CPAP cannot do all this. It blows slack tissue to the side in order to clear the airways. But this can only work during immediate use of the device. Without the device, the next day you have your old problem again. You keep it for the rest of your life. It even gets progressively worse because you get used to a “crutch” and constantly make the organism’s “work” easier.
CPAP – A purely symptomatical treatment
Once you end up in the sleep lab, you usually don’t escape CPAP care. You will be offered horrific scenarios. Their fear, generated by this, will make you bend. Most patients believe the so-called experts. Experts and completely forget that you are entering into a purely symptomatic treatment, which will never eliminate the causes. For a realistic assessment of CPAP therapy, please read my comment on an article from the Ärzteblatt:
How effective is CPAP – Real help or eternal crutch therapy?
Significant changes through causal FaceFormer® therapy
It goes without saying that the FaceFormer exercises cause noticeable changes, even under, on the tongue or elsewhere. After all, you are changing long-time habitual, wrong movement patterns and replacing them with biologically correct ones. The wrong thing remains more comfortable for you for a long time in this process because you are so used to it. Only when the correction has stabilised and become automatic will the biologically correct one be much more pleasant for you.
Please concentrate exclusively on the exercises with the FaceFormer and try to do them consistently and correctly.
Refrain from all other exercises with the tongue. They very often lead to the tongue being diverted from the function it has so laboriously acquired. Even if success takes a longer time due to your anatomically narrowed airways, the FaceFormer therapy is the only real help that brings out physiological functions as well as possible.
