“…They found that there was no clear evidence directly relating malocclusions to speech discrepancies. In addition, some researchers have reported that, during speech, subjects with a Class II malocclusion show a compensatory capability effected by readjusting the position of the tongue and mandible for the correct production of lingual-palatal sounds (Fairbanks and Lintner, 1951). However acoustic characteristics of /s/ and /s/ fricatives in Class III patients showed a distinct difference compared with a control group (Wakumoto, Isaacson, Friel, Suzuki, Gibbon, Nixon, Hardcastle, and Michi, 1996;Lee, Whitehill, Ciocca, and Samman, 2002 , [y]) following surgical RME in patients whose speech was considered perceptually normal before and after expansion.…”