The tongue reattaches quite frequently. Dr Newman's clinic in Toronto has the mother's lift the baby's tongue and sweep across several times a day and come back in a week to make sure the tongue doesn't reattach. 

Tania Archbold BSc IBCLC 
www.mothersnectar.ca



On 2012-05-05, at 17:25, Sarah Vaughan <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On 05/05/2012 02:11, Yasmeen Effath wrote:
>> Dear Sonya,
>> 
>> Here is the video of Dr. Kotlow for after care of frenectomy which shows you a simple way to prevent reattachment of Frenulum. When I spoke to Dr. Kotlow he mentioned infant's body repair cells rejuvenate so fast that if stretching exercises aren't done, the reattachment can begin to happen within 24 hours.
> 
> That's interesting.  I'm aware of a few cases in which a frenectomy had to be done twice, and it was always assumed that it hadn't been done far enough the first time.  But perhaps they were actually cases where the tongue had reattached.
> 
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Dr Sarah Vaughan
> MBChB MRCGP
> 
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