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Sun, 4 Aug 2002 10:37:02 +1000
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One of the problems with discussing tongue-tie is "what is a mild tongue
tie?". We need to have agreed definitions so we know what we're talking
about.
I use Alison Hazelbaker's tool to assess frenula: this gives you a number
score. On Friday, I saw a woman with a 2 year old whose frenulum I had
released as a small baby. She now has a new baby, and she said the tongue
tie was not as bad, but as her nipples tended to be flat and difficult to
grasp she was using a nipple shield, and wanted to see if I thought it was
worth releasing the baby's frenulum. Anyway, with Alison's sheet we could
see that the new baby scored higher on one item only, so it was less severe
than her previous baby, but still worth releasing according to the score.
There was no bleeding and hardly a whimper from the baby, and it was done.
Does anyone know if Alison has published the findings from her thesis? (I
have bought her thesis - but this is not easily accessible to the medical
community) Is she planning to?
I am a great believer in publishing. Research is not finished until it is
published. (this was also discussed in the recent BMJ).
Lisa Amir
MBBS, MMed, IBCLC in Melbourne, Australia - currently with 4 articles in the
pipeline with different colleagues!

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