The retainers my ortho gives out that I have seen look like invisalign retainers. They just go on the teeth.
The retainers you mention I have seen but are thinner across the roof of the mouth than was the splint I had. I filled up the whole top curvature of the roof of my mouth and went far, far back.
Did anyone have a hard time talking again???
I having to, it feels like, relearn how to use my jaw and lips to talk again. I'm talking and can be understood but I sound a bit impaired still.
I blame it on the new jaw position, law of range of motion on the jaw muscles, the lip incompetence and the numbness in my face.
God, I hope this all settles down. I'm told it will but the not knowing and the struggling with it each day is a real PIA.