"There’s also no evidence that mewing works for children — and there’s some evidence that it can harm you. In 2023, a team of dentists from Germany presented a case study of a 16-year old boy who practiced mewing seven hours a day for three months. His commitment to mewing (probably) resulted in a salivary gland cyst that had to be surgically removed."
It seems hard to believe that holding your tongue in the correct position in the mouth could cause a salivary gland cyst, in fact it would be an extraordinary claim. Seeing as some people hold their tongue along the roof of their mouth and almost certainly have been since the dawn of civilization, there should be thousands of years of records on this sort of thing, is that what we see?
"There’s also no evidence that mewing works for children — and there’s some evidence that it can harm you. In 2023, a team of dentists from Germany presented a case study of a 16-year old boy who practiced mewing seven hours a day for three months. His commitment to mewing (probably) resulted in a salivary gland cyst that had to be surgically removed."
It seems hard to believe that holding your tongue in the correct position in the mouth could cause a salivary gland cyst, in fact it would be an extraordinary claim. Seeing as some people hold their tongue along the roof of their mouth and almost certainly have been since the dawn of civilization, there should be thousands of years of records on this sort of thing, is that what we see?
Here’s that abstract: https://www.thieme-connect.com/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0043-1767647?