Pre-Consultation Preparation
Note any feeding difficulties, speech issues, or oral restrictions that may indicate a tongue or lip tie.
Be ready to share birth details, feeding history, and any prior evaluations or treatments. If you are able to obtain a copy of any notes, please have those sent to tongueties@highhhousepedo.com. Note: Previous breastfeeding support is not required, but highly recommended.
Write down any concerns about the procedure, recovery, or long-term outcomes.
There is a lot of background information that may help to answer questions, or make the diagnositic visit more familiar. Some of our favorites:
An article for parents that talks about why tongue-tie is beneficial for some, but not all infants (Dr. Ray was a contributing author) – click here.
Heavier and more technical, the North Carolina Tongue Tie Center follows these guidelines for management of tongue-tie in infants, children and adolescents – click here.
Babies under 6 months of age are required to have the intra-muscular vitamin K shot that is routinely given at birth to qualify for frenectomy surgery. If your baby has not received the shot, you may wait until after you have determined that your baby needs surgery. If so, we can help find a place to have the vitamin K shot administered. Vitamin K drops are not sufficient for this procedure.
Call (984) 884-7983 or use our online form to request an appointment, which can be found here.
NC Tongue Tie Center utilizes a CO2 laser for all frenectomy surgeries – we do not use scissor frenectomies.
Per our liability insurance, parents and other untrained personnel are not allowed in the room during treatment time. Parents and guests will wait in the waiting room, and should expect to be apart from their child for 2-5 minutes depending on the number of sites needing frenectomy, and the clinical anatomy of said ties. This policy is not negotiable.
In some instances, frenectomy surgeries are scheduled in combination with oral conscious sedation (child is awake, breathing on their own) or general anesthesia (child is asleep, may or may not be intubated, breathing on own with computer backup). Parents and other untrained personnel are not allowed to be in the treatment room during the time of sedation or surgery. This policy is not negotiable.
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