How to get rid of an interdental lisp?

I have an interdental lisp, meaning my tongue goes beyond my front teeth when I speak. Does anyone know how to get rid of it? Or make it less noticable? Or is it just my braces? I've only known about my lisp for about 5 months now, got my braces a year ago.

Best Answer

It probably has to do with you having the appliances and your bite changing. If you have an appliance like a bite plate, this makes it worse and can cause a tongue thrust like you are describing. You can try an exercise that helps: take a tic-tac and place behind your top front teeth and hold it with your tongue. Now swallow...making sure to hold the tic tac in place. If it falls, you are pushing your tongue out...a no-no. If it stays, you did the exercise right. Now repeat about 1 hour a day. If this doesn't help, you may have to see a speech therapist called an orofacial myologist. Either way, you should mention this to the orthodontist so they can make note and give you other exercises as well or make you an appliance to help! Good luck!