Procedures to fix tongue ties have skyrocketed as more parents breastfeed. Pediatricians say that there can be benefits, but tongue ties won't fix all nursing problems. Data on the efficiency of the ...

Surgery is being overused to correct breastfeeding difficulties in infants, a new report says. A growing number of newborns are being diagnosed with ankyloglossia, also called "tongue-tie." Tongue-tie ...

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 Monday. The American ...

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 Monday. The American ...

Tongue tie surgery involves separating the lining that connects the mouth to the tongue, known as the frenulum. It is a surgery to treat tongue tie, which is when the frenulum is unusually short or ...

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 from ...

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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. The ...