There are disadvantages to clipping a tongue, as with any medical procedure. These risks include: Bleeding Damage to the tongue or the glands that make saliva Infection A frenuloplasty can also lead to scarring that affects the tongue's movement. And your child could have a reaction to the...
Cultural beliefs were that all babies should have routine clipping of the frenulum at birth (48.8%). 154 (61.6%) believed treatment should be between ages 0-1 month. Ninety two (36.8%) mothers had had babies treated for tongue tie, mostly by nurses either using scissors (40; 43.5%) or...
In type 4 or submucosal tongue-tie, the attachment is far back on the base of the tongue, which makes the tongue shorter. The author recommends clipping to tongue tie cases where an anatomy plus dysfunction is seen.Philipp, Bobbi...