What is an Invisalign Lisp? And What Can You Do About It?
Thin as your thermoplastic aligners are, they very slightly modify the shape of your teeth and the interior of your mouth. Because the way that you make sounds and pronounce words is often determined by the placement of your tongue against various parts of your mouth, those tiny and subtle changes to the shape of your mouth can temporarily affect your speech while you get accustomed to wearing Invisalign in Edmonton. Those speech changes will sometimes take the form of a lisp. An Invisalign-related lisp is a minor and temporary speech defect that mainly affects your ability to pronounce the “s” and “z” sounds. Rather than sounding like “sss” and “zzz,” you may find that those sounds temporarily come out sounding more like “th”. The lisp is caused simply because the placement of your tongue inside your mouth has changed just slightly due to the presence of your aligners — enough to change the way that air flows through your mouth and the way that sound is produced. For most patients