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 ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

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Flourish Tongue Tie expands to Erie, CO with a new office, providing advanced tongue and lip tie frenectomy. We are thrilled to open our new office in Erie and expand our services to the community.

Dr. Allie Lonneman is an award-winning pediatric dentist and founder of Arlington Tongue Tie Center, Arlington’s only practice solely dedicated to the treatment of tongue-ties and lip-ties in infants ...

A new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests health care providers may be diagnosing too many cases of tongue-tie in babies and children, leading to unnecessary surgeries. Also called ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Kimberly Sheldon was 47, she says made the biggest mistake of her life. That was in 2018, when she says that a dentist explained to her that cutting ...

Re “A Booming Industry of Cutting Babies’ Tongues” (front page, Dec. 21): This article describes a surgery performed on babies who are born with their tongues attached too tightly to the bottom of ...