How you can increase your bigonial width naturally? This comes from my own research into the processes (most of the stuff i describe here is surface level ngl) and scrolling on forums where some dentists indirectly suggested these methods would work:
1. Hard chewing at the far back molars
A lot of the cortical bone deposition at the gonion comes from mechanotransduction during chewing, so you want to be chewing hard in the molar region - this can be from chewing hard foods often or gums e.g. falim gum. If you already have had a good bite for a while (natural or with braces) chances are these gains are maxxed out already unless you chew at the front of your mouth habitually.
A modest estimate would be +1-2mm per side from this method, still case dependent. If you're on these forums then you have probably been chewing well already, chewing extra hard at the very back will still most likely work but icl you probably wont notice a giant difference unless you take gh combined with this method.
2. Expand the lower arch (and upper if necessary)
To make a sizeable difference at the gonions, you need lower arch expansion. Expanding the lower arch, the force vector from chewing becomes more vertical/lateral, more bone is deposited laterally via mechanotransduction adding bigonial width.
The scope of widening from this completely depends on how much the lower arch can be expanded but I suggest +0.3-1mm bigonial width per side for every 1mm lower arch expanded is possible.
How you could do this is pretty simple and inexpensive, any lower arch expander off bracesshop would do the trick, just expand slow to avoid a incisal diastema.
Tldr; chew from the molars, get a lower arch expander
1. Hard chewing at the far back molars
A lot of the cortical bone deposition at the gonion comes from mechanotransduction during chewing, so you want to be chewing hard in the molar region - this can be from chewing hard foods often or gums e.g. falim gum. If you already have had a good bite for a while (natural or with braces) chances are these gains are maxxed out already unless you chew at the front of your mouth habitually.
A modest estimate would be +1-2mm per side from this method, still case dependent. If you're on these forums then you have probably been chewing well already, chewing extra hard at the very back will still most likely work but icl you probably wont notice a giant difference unless you take gh combined with this method.
2. Expand the lower arch (and upper if necessary)
To make a sizeable difference at the gonions, you need lower arch expansion. Expanding the lower arch, the force vector from chewing becomes more vertical/lateral, more bone is deposited laterally via mechanotransduction adding bigonial width.
The scope of widening from this completely depends on how much the lower arch can be expanded but I suggest +0.3-1mm bigonial width per side for every 1mm lower arch expanded is possible.
How you could do this is pretty simple and inexpensive, any lower arch expander off bracesshop would do the trick, just expand slow to avoid a incisal diastema.
Tldr; chew from the molars, get a lower arch expander
