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I am worried about facial distortion. (woman in her 30s)
Q. I feel like my face is distorted.
I tried doing facial stretches and exercises but even though it seems to get better initially, shortly after it feels like my face is distorted again. I heard that distortion is due to the way that I chew when I eat. My teeth have been weak since I was a child and now, at 38 years old, practically all of my teeth are false teeth. Could my teeth be causing my face to feel distorted?
A. It is plausible that your teeth are causing facial distortion.
As you would expect, if the position where you chew food on the right side is not aligned with the same position on the left side, you may suffer from facial distortion. If you prefer to chew in a particular area of your mouth, this may be a cause.
Your bite should be bilaterally symmetrical and should pass directly through the central axis of your body. It seems that most people who suffer from facial distortion have a poor bite alignment where the plane of the mouth is shifted to one side. The bite plane is usually hidden by the lips and the cheeks so it can be very difficult to determine bilateral symmetry. This requires an examination called face-bow transfer.
Face-bow transfer is when a mold of your upper jaw is taken and attached to a device called an actuator. This device allows us to determine whether or not your bite alignment passes vertically directly through the center of your body. Many fillings and crowns require the face-bow transfer examination technique.
You can think of the central axis of the body as being a straight vertical line extending from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet directly down the center of the body. There are a few planes on the body that are positioned symmetrically around the axis. The knees, the hips, the shoulders, and the eyes are just a few examples. It is also important for the plane of your mouth to pass symmetrically through this axis. At the same time, it is said that if your arms fall the same length on both sides, then you have good posture. With a face-bow transfer, first we take a mold of the upper jaw. After that we record the central point of the bite alignment plane and transfer the mold to a device called an actuator. Then we attach a mold of the lower jaw bite alignment to the actuator as well.
This is how we transfer recorded data to the actuator. The relationship between the center of the body (center of the actuator) and the teeth's bite alignment are reliably transferred through this process. It does not hurt at all and there is absolutely nothing to worry about.
It is necessary to conduct a face-bow transfer when examining the bite alignment plane or making crowns or dentures. There are no treatment methods at our clinic that do not require this technique. Crowns and dentures made using an actuator and face-bow transfer to guarantee perfect bilateral symmetry of the bite alignment plane allow for a balanced bite that guarantees no facial distortion. These dentures will correct your chewing habits as well by making it so that you can chew evenly throughout your mouth. Muscle tenseness will not heal immediately. But gradually your muscles will begin to relax and your face will return to normal.
You mentioned that most of your teeth are false teeth. I recommend that you have your bite alignment plane examined to see if it is lined up correctly.
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