Short frenulum

Hello friends scientists and lover of this great world, this time I want to describe a little about a condition that my youngest son has.

It is called anchored tongue and we commonly say short tongue or short frenulum, it is a condition that comes from birth and prevents the movement of the tongue.

When the child was only days old, we saw that when he cried his tongue was stuck to the frenulum from the tip, we went to the doctor and with a short tongue they checked him and the doctor of the moment told us that we should wait a while for the baby to develop and thus determine if an intervention was necessary.

We were not doctors but at first glance we could see that the child's tongue was growing but he still could not get it out of his mouth.

Now this lingual frenulum caused him not to breastfeed properly, it was difficult for him to lean on the breast causing him discomfort in the breastfeeding process.
Currently, the tongue tie is affecting her speech, as she is unable to pronounce words with r, rr and s, for example.

In the last visit to the doctor he recommended us that the child should have a frenotomy, this consists in cutting the frenulum separating it from the tongue, but as the child is two years old, some blood vessels pass through the frenulum, the process could bleed a little and even require anesthetics.

It is clear that there could be some possible consequences of this, for example, infections or damage to some salivary glands.
As the child is a little restless and may not be calm at the time of the practice of frenotomy, the other option is to perform a frenuloplasty, this is to perform more accurately cut the frenulum but under general anesthesia, in the operating room, which would lead to better visualize and detailed the affectation and correct safely and in some cases if the frenulum is thick requires suturing.

After the separation of the frenulum from the tongue and its healing, the child must undergo some tongue mobility exercises in order to improve pronunciation.

Next year the child will have his definitive consultation where it will be determined which of the two processes will be the right one for him.

The images are my authorship @manitojmdp.