Tongue tie surgery involves separating the lining that connects the mouth to the tongue, known as the frenulum. It is a surgery to treat tongue tie, which is when the frenulum is unusually short or ...

Babies with tongue-tie have a web of tissue tying the tip of their tongue to the floor of their mouth, restricting movement However, lactation consultants often can solve the problem by helping moms ...

Procedures to fix tongue ties have skyrocketed as more parents breastfeed. Pediatricians say that there can be benefits, but tongue ties won't fix all nursing problems. Data on the efficiency of the ...

Tongue-tie —a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding — may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors' group said Monday. The American ...

Surgery is being overused to correct breastfeeding difficulties in infants, a new report says. A growing number of newborns are being diagnosed with ankyloglossia, also called "tongue-tie." Tongue-tie ...

A new report is raising questions about infants being treated for tongue-tie. It’s a condition that can affect breastfeeding, but some experts think it may be over diagnosed and surgery is unnecessary ...

Dentists and midwives across the US have been increasingly slicing off tissue around babies’ tongues to make breastfeeding easier — but some critics claim the surgery is nothing but a dangerous “money ...

Soon after Karalyna Ashley’s daughter, Emersyn, was born in March, her pediatrician diagnosed the infant with tongue-tie, an unusually tight or short band of tissue that tethers the bottom of the ...

For some new moms, nothing can be more stressful than getting their infant to start nursing. Many anxious moms hire lactation consultants, especially if their baby has something called a "tongue tie." ...

Heather Rae El Moussa revealed that her and Tarek El Moussa's baby boy, Tristan, underwent an operation. On Tuesday, the Selling Sunset star took to her Instagram Story to share a picture of her ...

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At least two other medical groups have issued statements about tongue-tie. In 2020, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery issued a consensus statement in which member physicians ...