After talking to family, friends and searching social media, someone mentions your baby may have a tongue-tie. Could this be the answer? What is tongue-tie? Tongue-tie (or ankyloglossia ...

NEW YORK — Tongue-tie, a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding, may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors' group said.

What you describe is almost certainly a tongue tie. The medical term for this is ankyloglossia inferior. The underside of your baby's tongue is attached by a small slip of skin called a frenulum ...

On taking the baby to our own paediatrician she said it was not necessary immediately and has said nothing about it since. Is this condition called tongue tied? And if so what is the usual procedure?

"If you think your baby has tongue-tie, or are worried that he or she isn't feeding properly, get in touch with a breastfeeding counsellor, midwife or health visitor. "Getting support early can ...

Bristol Tongue Assessment Tool (BTAT) provides an objective, clear and simple measure of the severity of a tongue-tie, to inform selection of infants for frenotomy (tongue-tie division) and monitor ...

Oftentimes, infants are evaluated for a tongue tie after a nursing parent reports pain or other feeding difficulties. But a frenotomy may not even help with those issues. "In the best data we have ...

Breastfeeding rates in the US have held steady for the last couple of years, according to the CDC, but more moms want to do it comfortably. Google searches for "tongue tie release" have been ...

Question What should I know about tongue ties in newborns? Answer In 2020 a panel of 16 leading ear, nose and throat ...