is it possible to gain definition in your jaw by performing some exercises. I have found some jaw exercise pages, but they’re for post oral surgery and TMJ patients. A friend of mine(a girl with the most beautiful jaw) swears that exercising her jaw makes it more defined, but she is also skinny. I’m kinda under the impression that losing weight is really the only way to get that chisled look(nature helps too.) If, however jaw exercises really do help, even if its only a little, it would be great to know.
Hmm, I would guess not. Purely nature as you say. (i.e genetics/heredity) Jaw muscles ( Mandibular Depressors, Digastricus, Mylohyoid, Geniohyoid, Lateral Pterygoid. … )* are small muscles and therefore do not cause signifigant hypertrophy. In any case, you can’t change a muscle’s shape, only make it bigger or let it get smaller.
I was curious about this myself and while their are a lot of snake-oily sounding products (which you don’t need anyway), my experience is that the exercises work. I’ve only seen one source say that they can’t work and his reasoning was that most of the muscles of the face had insertions points to other muscles rather than bone. Alot of people will tell you that toning is a myth period, and that the only way to achieve “definition” is by losing weight. Definition and tone are two different things as I’ve explained once in another thread. Here is a source to free exercises (look near the bottom):
I should add that one of my family’s good friends is a highly respected plastic surgeon with no axe to grind where these exercises are concerned and he believes they should work in theory and do work in practice.
I personally think it is all bunk. A person works his or her jaw so much that if the muscles did get bigger they would be freaking huge by now. The jaw is one of the most used muscles in the body, and one of the strongest for it’s size.
Since I see a whole lot of people that are compulsive eaters and chewers of gum, and they don’t have massive jaws, then it is pretty silly to speculate that doing “jaw exercises” will make the jaw more defined. :rolleyes:
Maybe it is not the jaw so much as the stuff hanging under the chin, which creates a “bad” profile. Maybe some of it is genetic. But very overweight people may have more.
