It is a very quick outpatient procedure and is not a surgery.
Lip tie after laser.
A prominent maxillary labial frenum can cause a large gap to occur between the upper two front teeth.
In the past a lip tie was snipped with scissors.
Tongue tie and lip tie laser surgery is a relatively simple quick and painless procedure.
We will use numbing medication during the procedure and the use of a laser means that there is actually very little discomfort anyway.
If the patient is a baby diagnosis is done in conjunction with a lactation consultant or mid wife who will usually be present on the same day as the appointment.
A laser frenectomy is basically the same procedure as a traditional oral frenectomy.
Surprisingly the entire process takes just a few minutes.
Your baby can nurse as soon as he she desires to do so after the surgery however it may take 30 45 minutes for any numbing medication to wear off.
Also although laser treatment for lip tie is becoming more common it is expensive and not without risk.
The only difference is that the procedure uses a laser which minimizes the risk of infection and blood loss.
Now most healthcare professionals use a laser treatment that reduces the chance of excessive bleeding and is less traumatic for baby.
Lip tie has not been studied as much as tongue tie but treatments for lip ties and tongue ties are very similar.
In order to facilitate the proper healing of lip and tongue releases following a frenectomy we strongly recommend a regimen of stretches to be done six times a day no more than six hours apart.
It is the revision of the tight frenulum either by use of laser or snipping with surgical scissors.
The lip tie procedure is called frenectomy.
It is a quick procedure performed in the dental chair.
The mom lays on the dentist chair holding her child during procedure.
Preparing for tongue tie revision it s not necessary to do anything to prepare for the procedure.
Healing after a tongue or lip tie.
This is not a painful experience for an infant and does not typically require any anesthesia.
There is little evidence that it improves breastfeeding outcomes and the lip tie can.