Dear Rachel, I've sent a few moms to Dr. Coryllos with labial frenulums that are shortened and descend to front of gum as you describe (all of these also had lingual tongue tie), and she clipped these. There tends to be slightly more bleeding with this procedure than the lingual and the babies had more soreness initally but that resolved in a day or two. Moms all reported distinctly more comfort at breast and baby able to flange upper lip as normal. Sucking blisters also went away on babies with ability to flange. Besides sore nipples being resolved (enough of a reason right there), unclipped labial frenulums can cause the front teeth to be widely spaced. Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html