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How Will my Speech Be Affected After Full Mouth Reconstruction?

asked 10 months ago by anon
Latest answer by Pamela Marzban, DDS
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Tags: mouth, outcome, reconstructive, speech, statistics

Do friends and family notice a difference in speech? What percentage of patients need some speech therapy after mouth reconstruction?

3 answers to How Will my Speech Be Affected After Full Mouth Reconstruction?

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How Will my Speech Be Affected After Full Mouth Reconstruction?

Very little to none! Reading out loud will speed up the adjusment process, specially when you feel so happy and excited about your beautiful, new smile.A beautiful smile doesn’t just improve self-esteem: studies show that it can also have a strong effect on social and career success.For a full mouth reconstruction we design smiles with features that help our patients appear more youthful, healthy and attractive. Using knowledge of anatomy, function, and your aesthetic requirements, we... more
Pamela Marzban, DDS

Fairfax Cosmetic Dentist
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Speech Changes can occur after Full Mouth Reconstruction

Although it does not happen every time, changes in speech (phonetics) can happen after the teeth are changed. Whether they are your real teeth or denture teeth. It is most commonly noticed in the top jaw or maxillary teeth where this happens and has to do with where the tongue touches. For example, some people say letters like "S" using the tongue against the tips of the two front teeth while other peoples tongue touches the roof of their mouths just above the two... more
Christian Yaste, DDS

Charlotte Cosmetic Dentist
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Speech changes

When your teeth are dramatically changed in respect to length and thickness you will have some changes in speech. These should be worked out in the provisional stage of the reconstruction since the teeth will be made of a plastic that can be easily modified. Tounge position to the incisal edge can causing slurring and words like "sixty six, church, mississippii) can give you an idea about how you are going to sound. usually the learning curve depends on amount of changes and the... more
J. Willis Baker, DDS

Wichita Cosmetic Dentist

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