Hi,

I wanted to share my mewing progress from past year. I started on 28th october 2024, and i took pictures every month after that on the same day, in the same lighting (expect for two months because i was not at home lol) because I wanted to be sure that there woulld be real difference and not just some effect caused by different lighting. THERE IS NOT ALWAYS THE EXACT SAME ANGLE THO BECAUSE IM IDIOT AND I STARTED TAKING THE PHOTOS WITH PHONE IN MY HAND AND NOT PLACED SOMEWHERE.  Also, every photo is taken with tongue on the BOTTOM of my mouth, not in the "mewing" position. Anyways, I think there is still some noticible progress.

Here is some longer story and deeper information for those who are interested.

When I turned 17, I got braces. I had crooked teeth and severe deepbite. The 2 front upper teeth were looking like some rabbit teeth and they were pointing inwards my mouth. My ortho made xray of my mouth, and on next appointment he told me that he was talking with other doctors and I got 2 choices since my case was kinda severe. First was lower jaw surgery, and the next was extraction of 4 teeth (premolars). I was overthinking this since I wanted braces mainly to fix my side profile. Finally, I have chosen the teeth extraction, because I was scared of the surgery, and this was a huge mistake.

I got rid of 4 healthy teeth, they got me braces with the elastic rubber bands (from top front teeth to back lower teeth and they started to close the gaps by receding my whole face💔), after year with rubber bands (I should have used them only for night, but my dumb ahh thought it would make my jawline better if I use them more so I wore them even over the day too) I realised that my face is even worse than it was before, my face was more narrow and overall worse than before.

That was when I was 18, and I stopped using the rubber bands in that time. I knew about mewing before but it was just now when I started doing it since I was unhappy with what the braces were doing to my face. So I started and was doing it for like a year and 2 months, and there was some progress. I was 19 in that time soon to turn 20. In that time I also started to think about the jaw surgery again, and I told my ortho about it. What was weird is that he said I would need doublejaw surgery now, but before it was just lower jaw surgery. Almost like they recessed my whole face and now I need surgery for my upper jaw too lol. The doctor also gave me the rubber bands again (stronger ones) and I started to wear them AGAIN. All of the progress was gone in like 5-6 months. I was really angry about this, but I finished the rubber bands in september 2024. They made xrays of my face again, and sent me both the old original xrays, and the new ones. It was clear that they pushed my whole face backwards. In this time the progress pics start, and I started mewing again, I also started chewing (falim gum) daily.

I got rid of braces in November 2024 after 3,5 years, third progress pic is first without them. Currently I have permanent retainer on back of my upper and lower teeth. I also wear the invisible retainer for night. (I stopped wearing it between 9th and 11th pic, then I wore it again and in the time last progress pic was taken I didnt wore it again for like 3-4 weeks because the retainer fell behind wardrobe lol).

ALSO, between 5th and 8th pic, I was losing a lot of weight due to illness and bad mental state, I lost like 6kg in that time, the next two pictures, I was gaining the weight back. The first picture, from september 28th 2024, and the last picture from september 28th 2025, I am approximately the same weight.

I will probabably post again next year.

Mewing progress 1 year (20-21yo), photo from every month, same lighting