Tongue and Lip Tie

Tongue and Lip Tie are the simple names for Tethered Oral Tissues. Tethered Oral Tissues can have many potential impacts on children including:

Infant feeding

• Poor latch

• Pain while feeding

• Gassiness/reflux

• Poor weight gain

Solid food eating

• Difficulty with textured food

• Spitting food out

• Pouching

• “picky eating”

Oral development

• Crowding due to underdeveloped maxilla and mandible

• diastema

Dental health

• Increased caries

• grinding

Speech

• Articulation difficulty

• Speech delay

Respiration and sleep quality

• Mouth breathing

• Sleep disordered breathing

• Sleep apnea

Body function

• Poor posture

• Headaches

• Chronic neck/back tension

• Torticollis

• plageocephaly

At our office, we have two, highly trained Board Certified Pediatric Dentists who are very familiar with treating tethered oral tissues. We use cutting edge technology and our favorite tool is our LightScalpel CO2 Laser. If you feel like your child has any of these potential issues listed above and are curious about this service, please schedule a visit with us!