The most common sign of tongue-tie in newborns is difficulty with breastfeeding or bottle-feeding. Your newborn’s tongue or lip tie may also be picked up during a newborn or 6- week check. It is important to look into this further, as this can affect your baby’s growth.

A tongue or lip tie may also affect the mother who might suffer from breast pain due to difficult latching amongst other problems. Therefore, the earlier this is treated, the better.

Whether treatment is necessary depends on a number of factors and this is best decided in an initial consult with your expert doctor.

When treatment is advised, the release procedure is a low- risk and quick procedure. In a clinical setting, the tie is released using an instrument of the provider’s choice. Recovery is typically fast, with minimal discomfort and bleeding and depends on mostly on the expertise of the doctor rather than the instrument used.

Your practitioner will first go through a series of questions and examination to assess the suitability of procedure. Please make an appointment for initial screening with Dr Hira Shehzad.

After assessing the suitability of procedure, your Doctor will book an appointment for this procedure at our clinic. Please note that currently we offer this procedure for children age less than 1 year.

Contact us today or book online for an inital consult.