tight upper labial frenulum?

[Hther]

anyone had a child with this? does it look like the photo on my profile?

[thesecondcocking]

my sister and dd2 have a bit of lip between their 2 front teeth. the bit of skin that attaches to the gum is attached between their teeth. do you think it's a problem? it's not caused any problems for my sister or daughter by the way so i've never heard of the phrase before.

[Hther]

yes its the labial frenulum, it can mean the top lip doesn't flange out properly when breastfeeding, but also seems to occur in conjunction with posterior tongue tie

[Hther]

bump

[thisisyesterday]

yes, ds2 had a realy bad one, it was pushing his 2 front teeth apart. when he was about a year old he fell and broke it, so now his teeth are back together again!

he also had a posterior tongue tie, as you say they seem to come as a package!

i can see what you mean about the pic, are you concerned about it at all? I think a lot of peplke have it and it isn't necessarily a problem.

[thisisyesterday]

oh and fwiw, i was on another forum when ds2 tore his and quite a few of us had a feel in our own mouths and found that we had ones that had torn too! (i also have a posterior tongue tie)

[Hther]

thanks for replies, when you say yes, was that jst yes to your child having one or yes to both questions? wold yo say my child has one from this picture?

[thisisyesterday]

yes, i would. but am no expert lol

are you worried about it?

[Hther]

well, knowing that it often comes with psoterior tongue tie, i am wondering if this is why baby doesn't take solids or babble as the health professionals have suggested there is a problem with moving the tongue, try to get baby to copy me and stick tongue out but won't, but never lifts tongue; i can't tell whether he has tt or not but was pretty sure he looked like he had tight upper frenulum so guessed maybe that and psoterior tt; it does sometimes seem to make feeding a bit painfl as the lip doesn't flange out when feeding

[thisisyesterday]

ahhh right, how old is he?
you might be able to feel if he has one by running your finger underneath his tongue (if he'll let you)

otherwise i would recommend talking to one of the people on this list (whoever is closest to you)
if they think it's worth seeing him then you mgiht need a referral from your gp or health visitor, but some of them you can self-refer

[Hther]

i have tried feeling, he cries when i try, he also bites rather painfully, he's 1 now

[thisisyesterday]

ahh prob worth getting an expert to have a look then!

i think as he is a year old he'd have to have a GA if you wanted it snipped

[Hther]

although i didn't know what it was meant to feel like though!