Common Questions About Tongue-tie: Does My Baby Need Treatment?

There are many different reasons for a baby's unsatisfactory feeding, such as failure to master sucking skills (especially when babies need to learn different sucking skills from a bottle and direct breast feeding at the same time), or due to the inability to effectively sweep the air (too much air is sucked in during sucking), or the small hole of the bottle nipple is too thin, the milk is too slow, or the nipple is too hard, etc. Therefore, the baby's feeding is not ideal, which does not mean that the baby is suffering from lactation.

Most children are still mastering accurate pronunciation at the age of three to four. If the child does not like to talk, learning may be slower than normal. In addition to troubleshooting the problem of unclear speech, normal hearing is also the key.

Babies are more likely to need to have their ankles trimmed in the following situations, including:

1. One of the parents has had to undergo hip surgery

2. The tip of the baby's tongue is heart-shaped (or W-shaped) because the ribs pull on the tip of the tongue, causing the tip of the tongue to be pulled downward

3. The tip of the tongue cannot extend beyond the lips

4. Difficulty eating

5. Unclear speech

General risks of cutting knee tendons include inflammation (bacterial infection), recurrence, bleeding, etc.

In particular, the ankle tendons are close to the main ducts and exits of the salivary glands (submandibular glands/submandibular glands). If they are accidentally injured when cutting the ankle tendons, it may cause narrowing, occlusion, or even sublingual cysts in the ducts. In severe cases, surgery to remove the submandibular gland may be required

If the baby has already grown teeth and developed strong masseter muscles (or masticatory muscles), he may bite instruments (such as scissors), which increases the risk of surgery. Generally speaking, babies who are six months old or younger do not necessarily need general anesthesia to trim their ankles.