Tongue tie and breastfeeding: what the signs actually mean

Author: Dr Helen Fung

If feeding is painful, or taking forever, or your baby seems to be working hard and getting little, you have probably already been given a lot of advice. Some of it will have been… Read more »

When to refer a child for tongue tie assessment

Author: Dr Helen Fung

For midwives, lactation consultants, GPs, paediatricians, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, dentists and orofacial myofunctional therapists. Tongue dysfunction does not stay in one form. It changes with age and with demand, and it often becomes… Read more »

What happens at a tongue tie assessment

Author: Dr Helen Fung

A tongue tie assessment at Tooth Town is a functional assessment. That means it is not a quick look under the tongue — it is a careful examination of what your child’s tongue can… Read more »

Does every tongue tie need treatment?

Author: Dr Helen Fung

No. Many tongue ties never cause a problem and need no treatment at all. If you have been told your baby or child has a tongue tie, that single sentence is probably the most… Read more »

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