The soft tissue connected to the lips and gums and if it is too short, it can interfere with swallowing, speech, or infants when breastfeeding.
This is the tissue that connects your tongue to your mouth and it can be too short which can interfere with speech develompent and breastfeeding
This is the area above your front teeth in the gum area. If its too short it can cause difficulties in speech development.
Your doctor, pediatrician or dentist, would recommend the Frenectomy and the procedure is often done with topical anesthesia.
Babies may have trouble with breastfeeding properly if they have lip or tongue tie. Its a relatively simple procedure for an infant.
As you age, your facial structure changes and you my develop problems eating and drinking or you gums may pull away from your teeth.
We work with your for both Pre/Post Frenectomy with simple exercises to speed healing and get optimal results. The most important part after surgery is to ensure the tissue doesn’t reattach during the rapid healing process which can cause new limitations in mobility.
Tips for Post-surgery Exercises:
The CO2 Laser
Initial Visit: Open-mouth breathing and posture and forward head and shoulder posture, loud deep breaths during the day, depression, social anxiety (too anxious to look for work and hardly leaves his room and is on computer all day) Talking in sleep, bruxing at night, gulping, noisy open mouth chewing, acne, facial tension, and mumbling during speech.
3-4 weeks after Frenectomies: Nasal breathing due to ease of lip closure, skin cleared, anxiety greatly reduced, sleeping better, face more relaxed and swallowing correctly. Tongue up position.
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I definitely feel a lot more relaxed. I don’t have that tension that I had before. I haven’t had a single headache since. Usually I wake up with a bunch of pain, but I haven’t even had that… I used to get pain on the back of my neck when I wake up and had to put tennis balls there to relieve the pain, but I haven’t had to do that.
With Oral Facial Health Care, you can reduce the occurrence of discomfort associated with migraine pressure tension headaches, jaw or neck pain or other painful symptoms of OMD.
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