{"id":10312,"date":"2024-07-29T04:01:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10312"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:23:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:23:02","slug":"pediatricians-warn-against-overuse-of-tongue-tie-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=10312","title":{"rendered":"Pediatricians Warn Against Overuse of Tongue-Tie Surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a new report, the American Academy of Pediatrics said that breastfeeding problems were rarely caused by infant tongue-ties.<\/p>\n

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In recent years, more and more women struggling to breastfeed have taken their babies to a dentist to sever the tissue under the tongue.<\/p>\n

But little evidence supports the use of these \u201ctongue-tie releases\u201d for most babies, according to a report<\/a> published on Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 67,000 doctors. The tongue procedures, which often cost several hundred dollars, should be done only to the small fraction of infants with severely tethered tongues, the report said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur patients are paying out-of-pocket, outrageous amounts for something they don\u2019t need,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Thomas, a pediatrician in Wisconsin who oversees the academy\u2019s breastfeeding group and was the lead author of the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dr. Thomas said she and her colleagues began working on the report nearly nine years ago when they noticed a significant uptick in parents asking them to check their infants for tongue-ties. One study<\/a> estimated an 800 percent rise in the number of tongue-tie procedures between 1997 and 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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A New York Times investigation<\/a> last year found that some dentists and lactation consultants aggressively promoted the surgery, despite a risk of side effects. Serious complications are rare. But doctors told The Times that they had seen the cuts cause such pain that babies had refused to eat, becoming dehydrated and malnourished. A few said that newly floppy tongues blocked infants\u2019 airways.<\/p>\n

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In a new report, the American Academy of Pediatrics said that breastfeeding problems were rarely caused by infant tongue-ties.In recent years, more and more women struggling to breastfeed have taken their babies to a dentist to sever the tissue under the tongue.But little evidence supports the use of these \u201ctongue-tie releases\u201d for most babies, according to a report published on Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents 67,000 doctors. The tongue procedures, which often cost several hundred dollars, should be done only to the small fraction of infants with severely tethered tongues, the report said.\u201cOur patients are paying out-of-pocket, outrageous amounts for something they don\u2019t need,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Thomas, a pediatrician in Wisconsin who oversees the academy\u2019s breastfeeding group and was the lead author of the report.Dr. Thomas said she and her colleagues began working on the report nearly nine years ago when they noticed a significant uptick in parents asking them to check their infants for tongue-ties. One study estimated an 800 percent rise in the number of tongue-tie procedures between 1997 and 2012.A New York Times investigation last year found that some dentists and lactation consultants aggressively promoted the surgery, despite a risk of side effects. Serious complications are rare. But doctors told The Times that they had seen the cuts cause such pain that babies had refused to eat, becoming dehydrated and malnourished. A few said that newly floppy tongues blocked infants\u2019 airways.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10314,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10315,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10312\/revisions\/10315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}