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Hello

I read that one of the main downside of having lingual is the speech ability. I am aware that they are some cases where this issue remain throughout the treatment.

I am wondering whether using wax would solve the problem?

What is the long term effect of using 'too much' wax?

I would be grateful if you share your experience.

Thank you

It helped me quite about when I first got my lingual braces. I've never heard of wax causing any problems from wearing it too often, I think you can wear it as often as you need to!

KHbraced wrote:It helped me quite about when I first got my lingual braces. I've never heard of wax causing any problems from wearing it too often, I think you can wear it as often as you need to!

I guess the only downside is that we have to take it out when eating/drinking?

Wax unfortunately did not help my speech issue initially. It did help for pain- I got some pain due to dry mouth and tongue contact for the first three months. However I will say speech was only a major issue for about a week. By the end of week two I sounded perfectly normal to everyone but myself- still get a little mumble mouthed from time to time, esp if mouth is dry (or if I am drunk... but is that really the braces...) but nothing major. That being said everyone is different so it's possible you could have more speech issues than I did!

that's useful to know.

It sounds like we can use any silicon material as wax? I read some people use earplug as the wax...but not sure how effective it is..

[quote="chinglnc"][quote="KHbraced"]It helped me quite about when I first got my lingual braces. I've never heard of wax causing any problems from wearing it too often, I think you can wear it as often as you need to![/quote]

I guess the only downside is that we have to take it out when eating/drinking?[/quote]


Yes but that hasn't been too big of a deal to me personally

Hi!
I’m a month in with linguals and am finding just the smallest blob of wax on several brackets does the trick, and the number goes down week to week. If I’ve got to speak a lot I do tend to smooth out my brace on the front 6 by packing just a little under the brace as well as on the metal itself - feels a bit weird at first but I really helped me out with speech problems for a big event!

im using wax esp when im eating..eating without wax is a turture for my tongue