I can tell something is happening inside my mouth, and it is pretty exciting. Before all this surgery stuff started, I had a very slight lisp (if you could call it that), particularly with "ch" and "sh" and a few other sounds. I had pretty much figured out how to overcome the problem, but things are changing now. Even though I still cannot see much visible movement of my teeth, I can feel that things are moving around beneath my gums and in the area of the bone. My palate feels quite different, and the way my tongue hits behind my teeth is now just different enough to cause a quite noticeable speech difficulty.
I find this whole process really rather fascinating, and I wish I understood more about it so I could know just exactly what is going on inside my mouth!
It can be quite frustrating, but as soon as you find a way to overcome your new speech problem, a different one will appear. The first few months, I bit my lip so hard and so often with my left incisors, that my lip would swell or bleed. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore and my ortho filed down those teeth a bit and it helped tremendously.
ReplyDeleteThen, a few weeks later, I couldn't eat or talk without chomping my cheek with my back molars. Muscle memory is an evolutionary wonder or a curse, depending on one's circumstances.
Now, I have a whistle when I talk, like Granny speaking through ill-fitting dentures. I'm finally over the embarrassment of it all and have learned to embrace the lisps,chomps,and whistles caused by my gravel covered teeth.
Here's to progress my friend...Happy lisping :)
Sssssmileszj,
Nichole