Veneers destroy athletes.
From UFC fighters to footballers.
From Conor McGregor to Kevin De Bruyne.
Everyone falls for this trap and nobody is talking about it.
This is the science behind it:
(scientific literature mentioned in thread)
→ Around the root of each tooth sits the periodontal ligament, a sensory organ packed with mechanoreceptors. Every time you bite, it fires signals up the trigeminal nerve, straight into the brainstem.
That feed is what calibrates your balance, your posture, your jaw position, and your muscle tone in real time.
This is the proprioceptive feedback loop.
→ The moment the enamel gets shaved and a veneer is bonded on top, that signal deteriorates.
The brain stops reading the bite correctly, and the TMJ and masseter drift out of alignment.
From there it cascades:
→ Bite misaligns
→ Masseter goes dormant
→ Jawbone demineralises
→ Fascia thickens and stiffens
→ Posture collapses to compensate
The WHOLE chain locks up.
And the epicranial fascia on your skull is one continuous sheet with the plantar fascia in your foot. So a corrupted signal at the teeth travels the entire chain and changes how the athlete moves, lands, and absorbs force.
McGregor took it further and pulled his wisdom teeth too, which kills posterior support, severs more of the trigeminal feed, drops bone density, and even cuts neurogenesis.
Which turned his chin to glass.
Dental work destroys more primes than age ever has.
Top UFC Fighters make this crucial mistake which ruins careers