Will a dental bridge change the way I speak?

Will a dental bridge change the way I speak?

Ronald Rosenblatt, DDS (General and Cosmetic Dentistry) gives expert video advice on: Why would I want a fixed dental bridge?; Will a dental bridge change the way I speak?; What are the risks associated with a dental bridge? and more...

If the dental bridge is placed well, you should be speaking the way you spoke before soon after its placement. There may be a period of accommodation because you may have less space for your tongue. If you were missing teeth, particularly on the bottom, for a long time, then your tongue is going to flatten out into that space. Once these teeth are replaced with a dental bridge, your tongue will round up to the shape it had before the teeth were lost, but it's going to take some time to do that. During that accommodation phase, you may have some difference in your speaking pattern than you had before, but after you accommodate to all of this you should be speaking the way you did before.