Brian writes: >Hopefully more frenotomies and frenectomies will be >done after the conference. With all due respects, I think that a better conference to spread this information around (with the result of increasing the number of procedures done on needy babies) would be a dental and/or pediatric conference!!! In my experience LCs know far more about the need for the tongue to move properly during breastfeeding than physicians. My own dentist deferred to the pediatrician when I point blank asked him to assess my son's tongue tie. (When he was a baby, the peds told me that it would be OK with time -- notice it was not them he was sucking on-- and we didn't know anyone who did the procedure....) My experience has been that the parents are willing, but up until a few years ago, we didn't have dentists or physicians willing to do the procedure. Now we have a handful of dentists in the area who will do it, but the pediatricians are still very balky (to put it mildly). I even had a mother take the JHL article on tongue tie with her to the physician. Her baby had turned her nipples into hamburger, nearly. Well, her pediatrician told her "that her pain did not merit cutting in the baby's mouth". I said something (that I would prefer not to have headlined on the NY Times, so I will restrain myself in this public forum, but if you really want to know, you can e-mail me privately ;-) ). Turns out that this mom opted to NOT have the frenotomy done (we did have a willing dentist at that point) over her pediatrician's objections. She felt that the positioning work we did helped her enough. This was 5 years ago. Now she's pregnant again. It will be interesting to see what happens this time. Looking forward to hearing your presentation at ILCA - I am getting my list of stuff ready to study before listening to you!! Thanks for the preparatory information!! Martha Brower RD LD IBCLC, Dayton, OH