Anterior Lingual Frenectomy is Inadequate in Improving Breastfeeding Outcomes: a Prospective Cohort Study

The Oregon Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ankyloglossia; Breastfeeding

Treatments: Procedure: Lingual frenotomy and/or maxillary labial frenectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02936518

TOC ENT 2

Details and patient eligibility

About

A previously published study (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27641715) identified breastfeeding improvements following lingual frenotomy and/or maxillary labial frenectomy. In the previous cohort, babies were excluded from the study if they had previously undergone an attempted frenotomy prior to seeing the P.I. in the office. The proposed study will only look at those babies who did undergo a previous frenotomy to determine:

1. the presence of continued problematic breastfeeding symptoms
2. if further tongue tie or lip tie release improves those outcomes

Enrollment: 55 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 8 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy babies who are breastfeeding
• Had a previous frenotomy prior to presenting to the P.I.

Exclusion criteria

• Twins, triplets
• Maternal breast surgery or IGT
• Premature birth
• Significant heart/lung/brain disease of infant

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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55 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Lingual frenotomy and/or maxillary labial frenectomy