The fact that the size of our jaws decreases with age is shown in a unique research study performed by the Faculty of Dentistry at Malmö University. Actually, this study began more than 60 years ago. Plaster molds were made of the jaws of dental students, who were then in their twenties and the procedure was then repeated every 10 years. Forty years after the first molds, a final round was performed.
Lars Bondemark, Professor of Orthodontics, who analyzed the material together with his colleague Maria Nilner, Professor of Clinical Bite Physiology, at the College of Dentistry, Malmö University, mentioned that they have "found that over these forty years there was less and less room for teeth in the jaw."
