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My 16 month old daughter has a tight upper lip frenulum. She was tongue tied also and had that snipped in the ENT office when she was 3 months old but they did not even look at her upper lip. My daughter has feeding and drinking issues and I am wondering if this has anything to do with it as well. She has feeding aversion and so has a feeding tube. However, we are now weaning her from the tube as she has improved with eating solids (but she still doesn't drink much). My question is: What is the recovery for surgery at this age? We are waiting for an ENT referral but wanted to hear from Moms whose child had this done at this age.
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Poor sweetheart, I hope she starts to enjoy drinking as well as eating soon.
When he was 3, my son flipped over the handle of our indoor trampoline and somehow caught his lip on the foam handle cover on the way over. He landed on his feet (boy were we surprised) and then blood started to trickle out of his mouth. I peeled up his upper lip and saw that the connecting tissue had been torn about 1/2 inch. I called the doctor to say what had happened ask what to do and the response was (word for word): "It's called the "frenulum," he can totally live without it, and ice cream does the trick." My son never said another word about it, so I can only imagine that under more controlled circumstances a snipped frenulum should heal quickly and without drama.
I had my lower labial frenulum clipped when I was 8 years old, since my gums wer being pulled off of my teeth. I also had my sublingual frenulum cut at 3 months. I was fine when I was 8, just a little sore.
I have a three-year-old and 8-month-old who both have this. There have been no issues, though I'm sure it differs with every child. My pediatrician said that it can sometimes go away on it's own. If not, I can have it clipped around age 5.
