Three Steps to Success
Step 1 – Start position
The FaceFormer is placed in the oral vestibulum.
- The mouth shield is behind the lips and in front of the teeth.
- The lip wedge is directed outwards.
- The lips surround the lip wedge relaxedly.
This is how to place the FaceFormer
Position of the tongue tip
- The tip of the tongue is located a few millimeters behind the upper incisors on the palate.
- There, the tongue tip feels a small bulge. It does not touch the teeth.
- This position of the tongue tip is always maintained. It is the natural, correct posture and must become a habit.
Proper position of the tongue tip
Head position, straightened neck and nose breathing
Head position and straightened neck
The head is upright and the neck is stretched.
This natural proper head posture is always maintained and must become a habit.
It determines the head balance, body posture and body statics.
Head upright and neck stretched out
Posture of the lower jaw
The upper incisors are in front of the lower ones. *
Do not push the lower outward.
The temporomandibular joints adjust to a natural, relieved position.
* Exception: If the lower jaw is protruding, the usual position can be maintained.
Upper incisors are in front of the lower ones
Nasal breathing is essential
The nasal breathing accompanies all exercises.
Nasal breathing accompanies all exercises
Step 2 - Exercises: Basic exercise
Basic exercise
- Press the lips firmly together for 6 seconds.
- While the lips remain pressed together,
bite molars briefly together and swallow once.
Always maintain the proper tongue position. - Afterwards, relax your lips for 6 seconds.
A Press lips
B Relax lips
Exercises: Pulling exercise
Pulling exercise
- Press the lips firmly together for 6 seconds.
- Meanwhile, use the thumb and forefinger to pull the lip wedge forward.
- While the lips remain pressed together, bite molars briefly together and swallow once. Always maintain the proper tongue position.
- Afterwards, relax your lips for 6 seconds.
Press lips and pull lip wedge forward
You can suck in the mouth shield. A high underpressure is being formed in the mouth and throat. Right and left hand alternate while pulling.
Step 3 – Nightly application
Nightly application
Due to the training your nasal breathing improves noticeably after about 2-3 weeks.
Additionally, insert the FaceFormer now also at night.
The nightly application promotes
- Nasal breathing and mouth closure
- Underpressure in mouth and throat
- Strengthening of muscles and tissues
- Stabilization of the posture and tension of the tongue, soft palate and throat
- Automation of movement patterns
After 14 days, insert the FaceFormer also at night.
The path to your success
Method 3-6-20
Practice daily for at least 6 months, even though success occurs quickly.
Please note: In rare cases, skin irritation may occur in the mouth. Temporarily reduce the training to 8-10 repetitions, 2-3 times a day. Then continue training as described. In addition, you can apply lip balm on both sides of the FaceFormer’s mouth shield.
More Info
Continuous Face Former training has an effective influence on cranial nerve function and brain performance, neurophysiological patterning, coordination, tension of tissues and muscles, forming of underpressure in mouth and throat, functions in the mouth, throat and facial regions, body posture, body movement and sensory abilities.
Causal treatments, such as the Face Former therapy, are designed to achieve positive changes that ensue gradually with lasting success. Corrected functions can replace medications and aids, likewise surgeries can be avoided. Therefore, causal therapies are generally preferable to symptomatic treatments.
Often the FaceFormer therapy brings positive changes after only a few days or weeks. To stabilize the new postures and movement patterns, the training should be maintained for at least 6 months.
Supplementary pulling exercises
The supplementary pulling exercises are performed as described in step 2. Only the pull direction is changed.
Pulling exercise: Pull downwards
Pulling exercise: Pull upwards
FaceFormer applications
- Swallowing disorders (dysphagia)
- Malfunctions of the tongue
- Impaired mastication
- Disorders of speech, speaking and fluency
- Avoiding thumb or pacifier sucking and lip biting behaviour
- Muscle weakness or paralysis of the mouth and/or face
- Before or after face, jaw and tongue surgery
- Malpositioned teeth, jaw anomalies
- Tooth grinding (Bruxism)
- Disorders of temporomandibular joints
- Dental restorations and implants
- Sleep disorder, snoring and sleep apnea
- Sudden deafness, Tinnitus
- Vertigo, Meniére‘s disease
- Pressure imbalance of the middle ear
- Prevention of mouth breathing and support of nasal breathing
- Migraine
- Activation of cranial nerve functions
- Disorders of head balance and body statics
- Impaired salivation
- Influence on the metabolism, Diabetes
- Head, face, neck and back pain
- Cosmetics, slack skin and muscles of neck, face and chin
Experts offer individual support
An extended therapy program is offered by certified physicians or therapists.
For more information about content and practitioners visit our website:
www.faceformer.de/en/info
Good to know
Prevention and treatment of causes are the primary goal of any medical aid. Human health can thus be protected and can also be stabilised.
The FaceFormer therapy developed by us aims at the causative correction of health disorders – starting from the head. Eating, drinking, swallowing, breathing, jaw movement and head balance are vital functions of the head, neck and throat region.
Disorders of these functions have a significant influence on human health. They can cause aberrations, stress and pain in various body regions. FaceFormer therapy focuses on the correction of such malfunctions and their implications. Natural movement patterns and postures are practised, learned and stabilized. Thus, the FaceFormer therapy follows the ideal of a causal neurophysiological treatment.
The FaceFormer exercises are effective and easy to perform. First successes often occur after only a few days. Let it motivate and inspire you and consistently maintain the FaceFormer program for 6 months. In this way, the newly acquired skills are automated and become a habit.
We wish you much success and are happy to be there for you.
Cleaning and Hygiene
- Each user has his own FaceFormer (no use of multiple persons).
- After normal use, the FaceFormer is rinsed under warm water (toothbrush principle).
- The cleaned FaceFormer is stored in the designated hygiene box.
- In clinics the FaceFormer is autoclaved regularly (110 to 130 °C).
- For non-hospital use, at home, the FaceFormer can be sterilized in boiling water for about 20 seconds.
- In special cases (for example, infectious users), a doctor or hygienist will decide on sterilization measures.
Links
- Youtube Videos: www.youtube.com/user/DrBerndsenGmbH
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/Faceformer
- Therapists directory: www.faceformer.de/zertifizierte-therapeuten
The original FaceFormer – Medical product Made in Germany –
Medical Product No. 24.2.41-22051 – Pharma Central Number PZN 2204468
The FaceFormer is made in Germany. It is produced from high quality Silopren, a material specially developed for medical applications. It is free of phthalates (plasticizers), free of latex and free of bisphenol-A.
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