I would like to thank the Guardian for emphasis on the dangers of “orthotropics” in this conversation with Mike Mew (‘No excuses for the wicked people’: controversial dentist Mike Mew how ‘mewing’ would be more attractive, 17 May). Orthotropics is a quackery form today, with many claims that Dr Mike Mew makes no basis trying to have a scientific tried, as the British Orthodontic Society has said in the article.
There is no evidence that suggests patients to change in the form of their face, improve their intelligence or extend their lives by changing their mouths in the mouth of the apnea. There is no such “craniofacial dystrophy”, and maloccursion obtained from a complex interpretation of genetics, sprouting bone and muscle development.
The safest and best treatment for wrong teeth, increases in problems and surface suffering is the usual orthodontic treatment, made by Professional trained orthodontic. Similarly, despair that does not resolve the orthodontictitic treatment only that is best made by a qualified oral and maxillofacial surgeon. In all cases, patients can be reassured that those who give their care tightly trained at the highest possibility.
As a person to hit the General Dental Council and later appealed, Dr Mew has a total contempt of building orthodontic and poorly this term is used to describe him. In fact, many of the items used inside orthotopic were first made within the usual orthodontics, so we believed that Dr MEW as an orthodontist could mislead his pseudoscience.
Profund Grakt McIntyre
Dean, Faculty of Dental Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh
