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Date: | Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:23:05 -0500 |
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Hi Everybody,
I had a mother in to see me last week with a baby with what looked like
(to me) a classic type 1 tongue tie. I recommended that this mother see
her family doctor (our oral surgeon is on vacation)for a referral. She wss
referred to a local ENT who told her that he would not clip the tongue
because it was too extensive a procedure and that the baby would need
surgery in one year under general anesthetic for correction to avoid
speech problems. He also told her that if he clipped the tongue now, the
frenulum would only grow back and the baby would still need the surgery in
one year. He recommended she go to bottles and not put her baby through
the unnecessary pain.
I had given this mother information about Frenotomy from the AAP (although
we are Canadian and the Canadian Pediatric Society doesn't recommend the
procedure), however she chose to follow the specialists advice and quit
bfdg.
Has anyone heard of the frenulum growing back?
Karen BCsN RN IBCLC RLC
Chatham ON Canada
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