Allornothing
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The ideal masseter size for you will mainly depend on your current bigonial width and your bizygomatic width, so chewing could be cope or not in the short-run.
More importantly, at 15 I was chewing mastic gum daily for 30 minutes on each side (I stopped at 17 and then I just chewed regular extra gum every now and then). As a result, my masseters are decently sized, and my jaw now has an antegonial notch on each side due to more bone forming at the bottom of my gonions. Easy ramus length increase.
This has also given my jaw some nice angularity without the notch being as pronounced as the more common notch that is a result of downward growth. It also makes my gonial angle look smaller. Mine looks like this:
(Ignore the subhuman on the left, “mewing transformation” btw )
A “bad” antegonial notch from downward growth forms further away from the gonion, closer to the middle of the mandible and looks like this:
(Over for this subhuman.)
This could be ideal since it creates a bigger, more striking bicycle seat jaw effect. Depends on harmony of course. The notch created by chewing, however, looks cleaner and will look better on most guys.
I also suspect chewing is also the reason for my gonions being outwardly flared (new bone forming on the sides of my gonions), giving me even more angularity and width.
Increased jaw width and angularity from both bone and muscle is literally op. Chewing to form bone could be cope post-18 but it’s possible that change can happen.
More importantly, at 15 I was chewing mastic gum daily for 30 minutes on each side (I stopped at 17 and then I just chewed regular extra gum every now and then). As a result, my masseters are decently sized, and my jaw now has an antegonial notch on each side due to more bone forming at the bottom of my gonions. Easy ramus length increase.
This has also given my jaw some nice angularity without the notch being as pronounced as the more common notch that is a result of downward growth. It also makes my gonial angle look smaller. Mine looks like this:
(Ignore the subhuman on the left, “mewing transformation” btw )
A “bad” antegonial notch from downward growth forms further away from the gonion, closer to the middle of the mandible and looks like this:
(Over for this subhuman.)
This could be ideal since it creates a bigger, more striking bicycle seat jaw effect. Depends on harmony of course. The notch created by chewing, however, looks cleaner and will look better on most guys.
I also suspect chewing is also the reason for my gonions being outwardly flared (new bone forming on the sides of my gonions), giving me even more angularity and width.
Increased jaw width and angularity from both bone and muscle is literally op. Chewing to form bone could be cope post-18 but it’s possible that change can happen.
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