“Does your voice change after jaw surgery?”
I am a 26 year old female. I want to know if your voice changes after jaw surgery?
3 Answers
Considering that orthognathic surgery promotes changes in orofacial structures constituting the resonating system, functional changes secondary to surgery are expected to affect speech, leading to the need for further speech and voice adjustments.
No
Jaw surgery typically shouldn't change the voice but it may alter your phonetics as the position of the teeth will change as the jaws are moved into their correct positions. Most patients don't notice the difference, the ones that do are very subtle. For select patients, speech therapy can be helpful after.
