With the sugery I had, I was lucky, I had 50% of my tounge removed and 8 teeth pulled. The surgeon was from OU medical center that started a second part of the procedure where they took my right half of the tounge and wraped it around so I had a false tip. Immediate result clear speach right out of surgery. I have had heard that a lot sluring from other who were not as lucky as I was. SPEACH is the way to go! I now work at a call center and they can understand me, with 8 weeks of therapy. Just keep pluggin!