FWIW the bonesmashing is a funny MSM headliner but the reality is that it’s not even remotely close to how it sounds when people meme about it lol. It’s microfactures in specific places and there’s some (but hardly conclusive) evidence supporting this
Keep in mind that to an extreme autist like Clav, the difference between braces for straight teeth and using a mallet to cause microfactures in the cheek bones is no different. And in defense of the autists, these lines are purely cultural human constructs. In Europe they’d see American teeth culture probably similar to how you’d view much of the looksmaxxing methods African culture is big into wigs and fake hair so every cultural group of people have body modifications that are allowed and those that are taboo but these lines change throughout history and across geography. Not to defend these methods used by this group of people but also hard to judge when my parents had me go through braces to get unnaturally straight teeth
Thanks Reddit but you know my point and you know for most in America braces are largely a cosmetic thing hence why everyone in UK has fucked up teeth (by American standards). If it was health reasons driving the tooth alignment industry then it’d be happening in other countries but it’s uniquely an American focus downstream of our Hollywood culture