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General Category => Functional Surgery Questions => Topic started by: mynameis on April 21, 2021, 07:01:43 AM

Title: Speech, Language Phonetics after Jaw Surgery
Post by: mynameis on April 21, 2021, 07:01:43 AM

If you have learned languages, and put a lot of time into learning the phonetics of them (sounds that don't exist in English which require particular tongue and lip positions and movements), will jaw surgery mess that up and make it necessary to learn all that from scratch again?

Title: Re: Speech, Language Phonetics after Jaw Surgery
Post by: GJ on April 21, 2021, 07:50:23 AM

If you have a good outcome, form and function should work in harmony to make speaking easier, if anything. And visa versa.

Title: Re: Speech, Language Phonetics after Jaw Surgery
Post by: mynameis on April 22, 2021, 04:13:22 AM

But I speak fine now, wouldn't my muscles and tongue have to get used to completely new positions to the ones they've been accustomed to for so long? (I'm 31)

Title: Re: Speech, Language Phonetics after Jaw Surgery
Post by: GJ on April 22, 2021, 07:18:56 AM

Quote from: mynameis on April 22, 2021, 04:13:22 AM

But I speak fine now, wouldn't my muscles and tongue have to get used to completely new positions to the ones they've been accustomed to for so long? (I'm 31)

No.