Okay, if the research is showing they grow back, then that is definitely  
going to impact them getting done at all, and most certainly impact a mother's  
decision to have it done.  It's one thing to think of a painless procedure  and 
another to see it as something that requires stitches.  So, my question  is 
do we see this in only certain types of tongue tie?  Or in all tongue  ties?  
Is there research that supports 60% with a problem of scarring and  growing 
back?  If this research is there, and if the procedure being done  on a number of 
babies by several doctors in my area is in fact 60% ineffective  and can do 
more harm than good, I would want to see that research.  I am  not saying the 
ENT was not right about this baby, I am thinking in general  because most of 
what I am reading talks about the procedure as something simple  and does not 
require stitching for simple tongue tie in the newborn.  
 
Like I said, this is not an ENT who routinely clips and actually, I find he  
only does so in the most severe instances, so of course I trust what he saw 
and  did.  Is this 60% a number specific to a type of procedure?  I have  not 
seen thousands of babies with tongue tie, but I have never seen one have it  
grow back.  I am thinking if it were 60% we would be discussing this on  Lactnet 
.....
 
Thanks Cathy Genna-Watson for letting  me know it has happened  before.  
Seems so odd to me that it would happen.  Does the same thing  happen with 
cauterization?  Is that another reason why ENT's prefer to  cauterize?  Which do you 
think gives the best recovery time for the  baby?  

Thanks,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC, RLC

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