Post by daometjing on Feb 21, 2017 13:09:28 GMT -5
My older daughter has a pretty significant upper lip tie that causes a space between her front teeth. I took her for a evaluation at around a year old.
The dentist said they usually want to clip it early if it interferes with breast feeding, but in her case, they would wait until she's older, and clip it so that the gap between her permanent teeth is smaller. The plan is to go back when she loses her first teeth at 5 or so and clip it using a laser.
I have a lip tie, and a space between my front teeth. I was very self conscious of it in middle school.
We found out that my DD2 (now 14 months) had a lip tie at a young age, mostly because we knew she had reflux and were trying to find the cause, which turned out to be food allergies. We were advised to wait it out because she nursed well and I never had pain while nursing. So we haven't done anything and don't plan to. In my research, I learned that if there is a lip tie, 99% there is some type of tongue tie too, but again it does not seem to be an issue for her. My mother learned as an adult that she has a lip tie. She is 65 years old and the dentist was like, let me snip this. She declined, saying if she had made it this far in life, it wasn't going to be an issue.
I have lip and tongue ties and struggle with gum issues because of them. I have to get gum graphs and the periodontist will clip them at that time. If any of my kids had them and given the option I'd snip sooner rather than later.
Post by kateisoptimistic on Feb 21, 2017 13:17:39 GMT -5
My son had 3 lip ties (one in the center and one on each side) and a tongue tie. We had them lasered when he was 11 weeks old. He had issues transferring milk while nursing and it really helped. If I remember correctly most speech issues are from tongue ties and not lip ties, but it is possible for lip ties to also cause speech issues. They also told me that if not fixed there would be a greater chance for a need for orthodontics later on. The procedure was really no big deal and he was not traumatized. The worst part was the exercises we needed to do for a few weeks afterwards where we needed to stretch his lip back to keep it from reattaching. It was the worst. But i would do it again in a heartbeat as it allowed me to nurse and not have to exclusively pump.
I doubt the lip tie has anything to do with her speech development. A tongue tie could possibly affect pronunciation but not language development generally. And few words at 17 months is still within normal (very large range at this age) given her other means of communication.
Around 16/17m DD kept falling a lot and making the inside of her lip bleed. It turned out to be a lip tie. We had major issues BFing but her latch was always fine. At her 18m appointment her ped referred us to an ear nose and throat dr to have them take a look at it and they said they're not generally inclined to do much about them at this age, they fix them younger for BFing. I showed it to her dentist since it seems to be pushing her front teeth apart too and they said to leave it alone as well. So that is the plan for now. She's not a good eater either but I don't think they're connected.
Post by fknhostile on Feb 21, 2017 13:37:21 GMT -5
My youngest (18 months) was born with a severe lip and tongue tie. He got his tongue tie cut when he was 4 months old. They told us to have a dentist look at his lip tie when he goes to the dentist.
The dentist said it is very severe but they usually won't cut it until he starts losing his baby teeth and the adult teeth start coming in. She said once they're younger, they want children to have as many spaces as possible in their teeth. I'm guessing for possible procedures they may need in the future (ie my oldest needs braces and he might need 2 teeth pulled because there isn't enough space, etc).
He has a great vocabulary and speaks over 70 words and some 3 word sentences, so it's not effecting his speech.
Ds had tongue and lip tie. I asked my ped about it when he was about 3 weeks old, and I was told that "yes he has them, but they weren't bad at all". I got a referral to an oral surgeon because I wanted a second opinion (he wasn't nursing good and I was in so so so much pain). Once the surgeon looked at it he told me it was one of the more severe of the ties. I was also informed by the oral surgeon that pediatricians aren't as well versed as they should be when it comes to identifying and knowing the severity of ties.
They lasered both tongue and lip ties and he nursed like a champ thereafter and up until I weaned him at a year old. The procedure was super quick and healed quickly as well.
The dentist said the same about DS2 when he first went at age 2. They said around age 5 they will see if they want to laser it since it's never been an issue. They also pointed out it could detach on its own if he has a fall or something and bumps his mouth just right.
Post by seamonster on Feb 21, 2017 16:49:35 GMT -5
DS had a lip and tongue tie that were revised by a pediatric dentist with a laser at 5 weeks. He had a lot of problems transferring milk and we were referred by the IBCLC. The GP didn't think it was a big deal.
The pediatric dentist said it was severe and would interfere with his teeth in the future and be problematic for speech. I have friends who had their son's lip and tongue ties revised about 10 months because he didn't have problems nursing, but they wanted to correct it while he was still young. His recovery was harder than DS's, but that is probably kid dependant.
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