Hey y'all! I just found out that I only have six more weeks to go before the braces come off! My ortho said I'll be getting the Essex retainers and I was wondering whether I'll be lisping or have any kind of speech impediment while wearing them. I had expanders in for 4 months and for 4 months, I sounded like a 5-year-old who didn't know how to pronounce my words. My ex-boyfriend even admitted that sometimes he couldn't even understand me.
Everyone told me that I would get used to the expanders and talk normally within a week or so, but that wasn't true and now I'm hearing the same thing about retainers. I was really self-conscious with my lisp and I'm afraid that if I have one with a retainer, then I won't wear it as much as I should. Does anyone have any stories to share?
