Can't talk right

[Lucy]

Oh my goodness!! I am on day 4 of my first tray and talking is still so hard for me. I do a lot of speaking for my job and I have a horrible lisp and I am having a really hard time just talking. Please tell me if there is light at the end of this. I have these on for the next 18 months and I really hope that I don't talk like this the whole time

Thank you,

Lucy

[mommamorin]

Hi lucy, welcome!
in my personal experience (Ive had Invisalign for over a year now) the speech problems came and went all depending where my teeth were at the moment. All in all I probably only had problems talking with 3 or 4 trays out of 20, then 4 refinements so not bad odds. I just really concentrated on enunciation of each word and I was fine. If I didn't want to bother I would just say, "sorry, can't talk with these braces in", lol.

[Lucy]

Thank you I am just worried

[Sunny]

Practice talking and singing out loud Lucy. Many people find the more they practice the better their speech sounds.

Good luck!

[350GT]

If you project your voice more and enunciate more purposefully, it will minimize the lisp. Your tongue will get used to it as well eventually.

[Coop22]

I noticed during my treatment that it depended alot on how the particular top tray fitted. The higher up it came behind my front teeth, the less chance of a lisp. If it didn't come all the way up and touched my gums, I would talk differently. Maybe the next tray will be fine.

[liccledevil83]

I've found some days my speech is fine others I struggle. Today I struggled! No idea why this is, maybe it also depends on who I'm talking to and how aware I am off my speech. Heres to a good day when I have to do a presentation!

[lizzieg]

Hi Lucy
I have definitely found it has affected my speech. However, this does tend to be worse when you I move to a new tray. I have got used to a slight lisp. My course of treatment is very long - and at the moment I am only wearing a tray on the bottom teeth. My bottom teeth have now moved into a position where I am lisping even without the trays in! However, I am hoping that this will be corrected when I start the upper trays - at week 29. If it's any consolation, other people really don't notice as much as you might think. Good luck with it all!!

[Phy]

Hi Lucy, it's been a year since your post- did your lisp ever go away???
I am on Tray 2, and am still lisping badly- and the fact is it's not me being overly conscious about it, but that EVERYONE is telling me i am lisping. I don't know whether it will ever improve.. I have 33 trays

[ohyrgod]

hey guys,
I am on the 8th day of my first tray and I found that my lisp was quite bad towards the beginning, but it has subsided somewhat (though I still have one). no one's really told me anything but I think that's because I pre-empt them (probably shouldn't). I too am hoping it will go away completely but I doubt this will be the case...

[tman314]

I generally lisp on the first 3 days max of each new tray but after that it definitely subsides. It's annoying I guess but once some time passes and the newness of Invisalign wears off, you get use to it (even though I know that's not what you want).

I'm on tray 21 of 24 if you're wondering how long it's been.