Tongue ties and lip ties that don't interfere with feeding may need surgical treatment later on for other reasons. For example, a tongue tie may cause a speech impediment by preventing a child from making sounds that involve touching the tongue to the roof of the mouth. A lip tie may cau...
The tongue and lip holder has two retractor sections (1, 2) curved in such a manner as to match the left and right halves of the mouth in order that the lips are held right along the length of the upper and lower jaws. The proximal ends (3, 4) of the retractor sections are ...
Love this article. I so appreciate the time it takes to write these articles and they are so very helpful. I am certain my daughter had this and wish I’d known then. She just had her son 4 months ago and he also has the lip-tie. She had it repaired last week. Reply Heather S....
The tongue, floor of mouth and lip are the commonest site which are affected.1 The origin of the affected sites of tumours in oral cavity is the stratified squamous epithelium. Squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue has a poor prognosis due to its aggressive behaviour and tendency to metastasiz...
Dr. Trego is married to her husband Austin and has one son, Barnes Thomas. After several weeks of nursing issues, he was evaluated and determined to have a lip and posterior tongue-tie. After performing a lip and tongue-tie release on her own son, she has experienced firsthand what a ...
1.(Zoology) a strong bristle or group of bristles on the hind wing of some moths and other insects, by which the forewing and hind wing are united during flight 2.(Zoology) a small fraenum [C18: New Latin, diminutive of Latinfrēnumbridle] ...
CCRPDivision of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck SurgeryThe LaryngoscopeGhaheri BA, Cole M, Fausel SC, Chuop M, Mace JC. Breastfeeding improvement following tongue-tie and lip-tie release: a prospective cohort study. Laryngoscope 2017;127:1217-23....
Dr. Scott A. Siegel is a Board Certified Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon in New York City and Long Island. He is a Pioneer of Laser Tongue-tie and Lip-Tie Surgery.
NEW YORK (AP) — 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.
One of the largest doctors groups in the U.S. raised concerns that the condition known as "tongue-tie" is being over-diagnosed and often treated with unnecessary surgery to babies' mouths.