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English => General => Topic started by: Orthobraces on 03. November 2007, 04:40:49 AM
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How do you talk with a appliance such as a Frankel appliance
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It's like any appliance ... if you have to wear it, you will get used to it and after some practise you can talk and eat without much hassle. It's only a problem if you let it be one.
I was given a passage, called the Rainbow passage to practise speaking out loud, several times an hour, after I had my expanders bonded. To begin with there was lisping and spitting and I felt like I was choking when I ate. With practise, I was back to talking and eating easily ... within a week.
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Besides, a Frankel (spelt correctly either "Fränkel" (with the dots above the "a") or "Fraenkel" (non-dot transcription) - d*** German ;) ) is hardly the most restrictive appliance around, speechwise. Think activator or protrusion plates. Also seconding Hilly re expander.
edit: VET - very embarrassing typo...
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Besides, a Fraenkel is hardly the most restrictive appliance around, speachwise.
But it's often written on orthodontic sites that you can talk very easily with Fraenkel appliance because of its thin construction?!
Aber auf KFO-Seiten wird immer geschrieben, dass mit Fränkel-Spangen das Reden sehr einfach wäre, da nicht so klobig?!
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Besides, a Fraenkel is hardly the most restrictive appliance around, speachwise.
Aber auf KFO-Seiten wird immer geschrieben, dass mit Fränkel-Spangen das Reden sehr einfach wäre, da nicht so klobig?!
But it's often written on orthodontic sites that you can talk very easily with Fraenkel appliance because of its thin construction?!
Did I assert anything to the contrary? // Habe ich irgendwas anderes behauptet? (Falls hier (mal wieder) ein Übersetzungsproblem vorliegt: ich schrieb "Nebenbei bemerkt, ein Fränkel ist wohl kaum das restriktivste Gerät, das es gibt, auf die Aussprache bezogen")
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I have had a thick bite plate for a few years and I dont often take it out. If I do take it out it is not easy to talk clearly and I stumble over words.
Some time ago I answered the phone without it and had to go and put it in before I could say much as I could hear that I didnt sound right.
I have an activator as well and it is quite easy to talk with it in now I have got used to it.
I remember seeing a teenager with an activator at the airport but he took it out everytime he wanted to say anything.