Tongue-Ties + Lip Ties

Is your infant having difficulty nursing?

Make clicking noises while feeding?

Often suffering from gas or reflux?

Does your child struggle with speech?

Have a strong gag reflex or snore?

Your child may have a lip-tie or tongue-tie. While not life-threatening, they are treatable with a short procedure at our office.

Frenums are soft tissue attachments that connect the floor of the mouth to the tongue and the upper/lower lip to the gum tissue.

In some instances, the upper/lower lip or tongue frenums may be restricted or tight causing issues in a child.

A restricted frenum in an INFANT may lead to difficulty nursing or taking a bottle, gas, reflux, colic, clicking/smacking noises while feeding, or milk leaking from the mouth while eating.

A restricted frenum in an older CHILD may result in feeding issues, speech delay, a strong gag reflex, or snoring.

Tongue-ties and lip-ties are treated by a surgical procedure called a FRENECTOMY where the restricted frenums are released.

At Valley Pediatric Dentistry, we offer frenectomy procedures using the LightScalpel CO2 laser which allows the procedure to be completed in a few seconds.