Just had a discussion with a pediatrician I respect who feels that it is dangerous to perform frenotomies on posterior tongue ties in the office due to the risk of severing the lingual artery and the possibility of hemmorhaging. She says that they should be done in the OR under general anesthesia so that if there was a complication it could be dealt with, since the bleeding could be fatal in an outpatient setting. Wanted to throw this out there for discussion. I have been sending many moms in to have the procedure done by a very competant local ENT in her office and feel a little shaken up by this conversation.
Kathy Lilleskov RN IBCLC

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