Tongue Tie
Tongue Tie Release
Tight tissues in the mouth lead to lip and tongue ties. A tongue tie results from an excessively short, thick, or deformed lingual frenulum, the connective tissue that links the tongue to the floor of the mouth. The lingual frenulum often contracts as your unborn child develops inside of you.
It’s likely that a reflex connecting the tongue and the lip causes the perception that most babies have both a lip tie and a tongue tie, making it challenging for a baby to move independently. The two disorders are usually assessed separately; if a lip tie is treated, any tongue-related issues would be resolved easily (and vice versa).
effects of Lip & Tongue tie in your child?
While our dental team at Palm Valley Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics will do everything in our power to preserve your beautiful smile, dental extractions can be critical in helping you avoid further damage and disease. There are a variety of situations that require you to get a dental extraction:
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What’s the Solution?
When you present this issue to us at Palm Valley Pediatrics Dentistry and Orthodontics, the specialized team of pediatrics dentists will examine your child and determine the type of treatment to be applied for an effective and better solution. If the solution would be a laser frenectomy, our expert would attend to your child to give the proper and best laser frenectomy.
Avoid making the early stages of parenthood even more difficult by allowing your child’s tongue-tie or lip-tie. Breastfeeding can be challenging enough. Your child has fewer obstacles to a healthy diet because of the specialists at Palm Valley Pediatric Dentistry & Orthodontics who are skilled in identifying tongue-ties and lip-ties.
Bring your child in at any time if you think they could have tongue-tie or lip-tie so we can refer you to the right available specialist. We’ll take the time to assess your child, hear about your concerns, and go over your treatment choices.
