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Hi Anita and welcome to this forum.
Great that you're making progress ... that must be exciting for you.
Here's a passage we give to patients who need to wear removable appliances, or appliances that interfere with the 'usual' movement of their tongue.
The Rainbow Passage ... This is a great tool used by many speech pathologists. It contains most of the sounds and phonetic combinations in the English language. Repeat this several times a day out loud.
The Rainbow Passage
When the sunlight strikes raindrops in the air, they act like a prism and form a rainbow. The rainbow is a division of white light into many beautiful colours. These take the shape of a long round arch, with its path high above, and its two ends apparently beyond the horizon. There is, according to legend, a boiling pot of gold at one end. People look, but no one ever finds it. When a man looks for something beyond his reach, his friends say he is looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
This is worth trying, as it may help. Other than that, I recommend you accept that you will have a minor speech issue for the length of your treatment. On the positive side ... it will go away when treatment is over, and I'm sure there are many people with permanent speech issues who'd love for that to be an option for them.
Brenda is correct about retainer wear. If you want your teeth to stay where they get moved to, then they need to be 'retained' there for life. Teeth continue to move for as long as we're alive, so it important to accept that before starting orthodontic treatment. How 'your lifetime of retainer wear' is organised will be up to your orthodontist. For most people, there's a period of full time wear, then this drops to maybe every night, then maybe two or three nights a week. Some orthodontists also bond upper and/or lower permanent retainers to the insides of your front teeth. As long as your oral hygiene is A1, this won't be an issue, and will keep those teeth retained, as long as it stays bonded in place.
Good luck with your progress!
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