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November 21, 2025

crying newborn in their mother’s arms

You can’t figure it out: your newborn is perfect, and you couldn’t love them more. Why can’t they breastfeed? What are you doing wrong? Fortunately, you bring your baby to a pediatric dentist for evaluation, and they inform you that your infant needs a frenectomy to take care of their tongue-tie. Now, that may feel like a lot of jargon thrown at you all at once, but understanding the problem and the difference between your two options, frenectomy and frenotomy, can help you know how to improve this situation for you and your baby!

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