Are Tongue & Lip Ties More Common Than They Used to Be?

Today, you can visit most mom social media influencer’s content and likely hear about tongue and lip ties and the uncomfortable symptoms that accompany it for the parent breastfeeding, like nipple pain. There’s more attention being paid to mothers’ concerns about not only breastfeeding, but other symptoms that they notice in their infant, like digestion difficulty and restlessness. Fortunately, there’s a problem and solution that can answer these parents’ concerns, but is it a relatively modern diagnosis and procedure? Read on to learn more about tongue and lip ties and frenectomies, and why we’re seeing it more commonly diagnosed in 2021.