Lauren Lavelle didn’t know much about breastfeeding when she became pregnant with her first daughter in 2018. So she sought help from Melanie Henstrom, a lactation consultant in Boise, a few months ...

Tongue-tie (ankyloglossia) can be alarming for new parents—but does your child's tongue actually need to be clipped? Cindy Gellner, MD, addresses the myths and facts about a frenotomy, from the ...

Tongue-tie —a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding — may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors' group said Monday. The American ...

Tongue tie, medically known as ankyloglossia, is a condition where the tissue (lingual frenulum) connecting the tongue to the floor of the mouth is unusually short or tight. While this condition is ...

Studies have shown a growing number of infants being diagnosed with ankyloglossia – a congenitally tight lingual frenulum that limits the motion of the tongue, more commonly referred to as tongue-tie.