In order to put your jaw in its natural biting position, first relax your muscles, then push your jaw all the way back and up. That is likely how the ortho is going to test it.
Just retraining your muscles to hold your jaw forwards is not going to help, and that's not what a Herbst does - it actually makes your lower jaw grow.
Hope it works for you!
I'm 20, will a hersbt device still work?
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Thanks for the input. Do you know how the herbst exactly is put in? Like does it lock on so you have an overcorrected bite right? I still don't really understand it.ohmyjaw wrote:In order to put your jaw in its natural biting position, first relax your muscles, then push your jaw all the way back and up. That is likely how the ortho is going to test it.
Just retraining your muscles to hold your jaw forwards is not going to help, and that's not what a Herbst does - it actually makes your lower jaw grow.
Hope it works for you!
As far as I understand it, the Herbst can only impact bone structure in a growing patient. In adults, I would imagine it only effects purely dental change (i.e. just moves the teeth)
I just did the tounge on the roof thing and my "bite" was a couple of mm, 2 or 3 behind my front teeth but they are protruding at an angle anway. I guessed that the herbst would not alter any jaw growth but maybe train the muscles where to bite correctly (maybe in conjunction with a bite plate) Its crazy but i can give myself about a 5mm underbite or a 5mm overbite it's as if my jaw doesn't have a normal place of rest. I think my molars may have not grown enough which means my two jaws don't meet naturally, thus the overbite, thus the mouth breather apearance. I have no idea I'm just guessing.