tongue-tie
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An estimated 7% of babies are diagnosed with a condition called tongue-tie, in which the connection between the tongue and the floor of the mouth is too strong and limits tongue movement.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2024
Reporters traveled to Boise, Idaho, and observed tongue-tie surgery in Manhattan.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2023
He also suggested Patient A underwent a lingual tongue-tie release, which he said would allow her to rest with her tongue on the roof of her mouth and strengthen the jaw.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022
Some babies with the condition struggle to latch on to the breast, but awareness of it as an infant feeding issue can be poor, and tongue-tie can be hard to spot.
From BBC • Feb. 12, 2022
In tongue-tie the weblike membrane underneath is attached342 too far forward, so that the child is quite unable to protrude his tongue, and this condition greatly interferes with sucking.
From The Mother and Her Child by Sadler, William S.
