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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