tongue tie question

I jsut took DD to an ENT for her ears- shes 2 now. when she was a baby, i saw she was tongue tied- but she was nursing fine, no issues. her tongue did not have a "pulled" look, she jsut couldnt stick it out. now, she can stick it out to her lips, about. when she was a baby, ped told me to leave it alone since it wasn't interfering with eating. right now, no drool issues, no speech issues either- i mean, her speech isnt totally intelligible, but she speaks pretty well for a 2 yo. anyhow- seeing as we were by an ENT anyhow, i asked him ot look at it. he said it shoudl be cut, but at this point she has to be under anesthesia to do it.
if we end up with tubes, i will definitly do it, since she will be inder anyhow, but not sure how i feel about jsut doing it alone. would you put a kid out for this? get a second opinion? ignore it?

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its definately a personal decision. I had known ds would have the muscle above the top teeth so i knew i wanted that taken care of. When the dr met with him when he was 1 day old she noticed he had the tounge tie too and cut both... from my own experience, my niece and nephew both have it and its tougher to understand what they say. At 5 & 8 I still have to ask my mom sometimes what they said. I had it, it wasnt corrected and i had speach lessons when i was little at school.

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that's a tough call. Our ped did it both times in the hospital at birth so I was glad I didn't have to make that choice. sorry I'm no help but wanted to give you some support and say that I'm sure whatever you decide will be the right choice.

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We went through the same thing with DD. She ate fine as a baby, started talking, there was a little lisp but nothing crazy. Then, when she turned 4 and went to her first dentist visit, we found out that the tongue tie was affecting her whole bottom teeth development. Our dentist advised us to get it cut right away. Was it a bad experience for a 4 year old? Definitely. She actually still remembers some of the day. When my DS was born he had it too, we had his clipped roght away at 2 months. In my honest opinion, I advise anyone to do it as soon as possible.

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what does tongue tie look like? how do you know a kid has it? i've never seen it or heard of it before

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If it's not interfering with eating or speech, then I wouldn't.

I have a slight tongue tie and other than a very "short" tongue I've never had any issues. AND I'm actually a speech pathologist! The only "odd" thing is that I cannot stick my tongue that far out of my mouth.

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a short frenum(tounge tied) can interfere with teeth development and speech.
My nephew had this and his parents were given the option to bring him to speech therapy or get the frenum snipped. They took him to speech therapy and the only thing it did was prolong the inevitable - a year later they had to get it cut.

What i would do is bring ur dd to a dentist. - at 2 she should have gone there already - and ask them for their opinion

Message edited 12/20/2009 8:39:32 AM.

Re: tongue tie question

Sight unseen it's hard to say if you should or shouldn't, but they are not rushing to cut it now-a-days...especially if it's not interferring with speech/feeding. Based on what you have said, it SEEMS that its not getting in the way now, but you should have him evaluated to check out the range of motion of his tongue to make sure it will not be a problem in later developing sounds. Many children are able to articulate without a problem with this. It depends on how much range of motion the tongue is given/how much is attached.

Message edited 12/20/2009 9:13:32 AM.