Transoral laser surgery to remove cancer at the base of the tongue is as effective as open surgery and may improve quality of life, according to a new study by researchers from Rush University Medical ...

Surgery is being overused to correct breastfeeding difficulties in infants, a new report says. A growing number of newborns are being diagnosed with ankyloglossia, also called "tongue-tie." Tongue-tie ...

Procedures to fix tongue ties have skyrocketed as more parents breastfeed. Pediatricians say that there can be benefits, but tongue ties won't fix all nursing problems. Data on the efficiency of the ...

TO MAKE IT EASIER FOR OTHER PARENTS. TOUCH YOUR TONGUE TO THE ROOF OF YOUR MOUTH. THAT’S EASY FOR JONATHAN TO DO NOW AT AGE SEVEN. BUT FOR MONTHS AFTER HE WAS BORN, HIS MOTHER, REBECCA HILL, HAD NO ...

At least two other medical groups have issued statements about tongue-tie. In 2020, the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery issued a consensus statement in which member physicians ...

NEWNAN, Ga. - Becki Goggins of Montgomery, Alabama, first noticed something was off in spring 2022. "I thought I had bitten my tongue," Goggins says. "That's how this all started." At first, Goggins ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- When cancer threatened to silence a local musician, the surgery to save his life could also have ended his career. So two UPMC doctors worked to re-imagine his surgery to make ...

A Dubai resident diagnosed with tongue cancer has successfully undergone life-saving surgery at King’s College Hospital London in Dubai. The patient, who was suffering from a rapidly progressing ...

Five years post-diagnosis, one woman is still navigating the aftermath of treatment and making sure others are aware of the signs Courtesy of Jamie Powell A mother of two from Coto De Caza, Calif., ...

Experts say there isn't a good count of how many infants each year are being treated for tongue-tie with surgery, though Bunik believes the annual tally may exceed 100,000. Research suggests many of ...