Metal Mouth Message Board

... directly provide any words of wisdom, but I did do a search on "TPA + lisp" and came up with these results https://www.archwired.com/phpbb2/search.php?keywords=TPA+%2B+lisp&fid%5B0%5D=13 ...

... a little hello from a newbie, with braces bottom and top along with a TPA. Who’s made a big decision at 52 to get them done. I have an overbite ... about my braces are so judgemental!! PS how long does it take for my lisp to go with a TPA! Thank you x

... my adult canines and also to remove all 4 of my wisdom teeth. I have a TPA, and the surgeon attached the exposure chains to it. The weird part is ... thought I would be used to braces by now but I can't get over the minor lisp I have, I feel like my lips puff out and make me look awkward while ...

Hi Charlotte, It sounds like they may have installed a TPA (transpalatal arch). Does it go from one molar band to the other? A picture ... For me, it was about 3 weeks before I had no more tongue sores and reduced lisp. The tongue sores do occasionally come back. Soft foods should help, and ...

... except when I bite down onto something hard with my front teeth. The TPA appliance is something new to me this go-around, and it's not nearly ... carefully, so that I don't hit the evil tongue spurs!). The resulting lisp is fairly pronounced. Initially I was supposed to get these braces on ...

I've had an RPE (horrible for talking), now a TPA wire and braces. I find that if I am intentional with my pronunciation that my lisp is not so noticeable. It's when I get tired or lazy that I slur S's and W's. I have to work a ...

Hi MissRed, Thanks for your questions. Once I had the braces and TPA fitted it took about 3 2-3 weeks in total, getting used to eating again. ... Its strange how quickly we adapt to new situations. I had a bit of a lisp for a few weeks, but that was just my tongue getting used to the new ...

Hi MissRed, Thanks for your questions. Once I had the braces and TPA fitted it took about 3 2-3 weeks in total, getting used to eating again. ... Its strange how quickly we adapt to new situations. I had a bit of a lisp for a few weeks, but that was just my tongue getting used to the new position ...

... on...it surprisingly did not effect my speech. I was worried about a lisp for weeks leading up to it. I dont know if that means I'm not talking ... Even now there is an imprint on my tongue it almost looks like the TPA branded a curve into my taste buds lol. But now I hardly notice it. Oh ...

... on...it surprisingly did not effect my speech. I was worried about a lisp for weeks leading up to it. I dont know if that means I'm not talking ... Even now there is an imprint on my tongue it almost looks like the TPA branded a curve into my taste buds lol. But now I hardly notice it.

I have a tpa plus a nance button .. its taking some getting used to and i lisp a little bit. its been about a week and a half so far. food gets trapped around, above, under, beside, below... ...

... right now...I just traded in an ALF for another wire expander with a TPA. No lie, it is hard to talk, and I have a very pronounced lisp thanks to the two thick wires replacing the one thin one behind my teeth, and some general ...

... a different approach to exposure, as I have previously stated. I have a TPA with a spring attached from the TPA to the chain, so that there is a ... TPA, but I am finally over that hump and I am no longer talking with a lisp....thank goodness!!! I still have a spring on my upper archwire to keep ...

I have had a TPA and LLA in for 4 months now along with my braces. It does get better. I had such a lisp for the first 2 weeks and everything was getting caught on the roof of my mouth. My tongue was raw too from always rubbing it against the TPA/LLA. It does get better! Hang in there!

My lisp disappeared within a week or two! It just takes your tongue a little bit of time to get used to it. Before long you won't even notice it anymore!