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All the info I have read and when I talked to pediatric dentists, they all say that clipping a lip tie is NOT recommended for tooth spacing issues, because you don't know how the adult teeth will come in and how the jaw will change. If necessary, it can be done when the child is older and the adult front teeth are in, and I think it's done with a laser and is very fast (but I imagine a bit painful after).

I can't speak for having a child done but I myself had a tongue tie clipped at 12years old and I can say it was hard on me. I can remember exactly what happened and I'm 33 now. I'm positive the procedure is way better now a days but for me I'd kinda wished they'd left it alone.

My oldest daughter also has a tongue tie issue and is nearly 13years old and I've not had it snipped and her teeth/speech and eating habits have all been fine since birth.

here's the link to the pictures of our ties, haha:

http://boards.hellobee.com/topic/lip-tie-tongue-tie#post-454593

@Charm54: I wrote this on the other post, but in case someone doesn't switch over: DD has a pretty major lip tie that the dentist showed us at her first appointment at age 2. We EBF with no latch or supply issues until she was 11 months and we had never noticed it before he pointed it out. I wanted to add that the dentist said it is not a concern at this point other than these do have a tendency to be easily injured in LOs and can bleed a lot, which can be scary but not really a major problem.

@Charm54: I had to use my finger to push her tongue up and down and then sweep across under her tongue several times a day with the goal of preventing it from healing back together. For a kid with aversions to having things in her mouth (the reason we were in feeding therapy and discovered the tie in the first place) this was not her favorite thing. But she will eat anything now, so there's a good chance it helped!

ETA : I breastfed for the first 4 months and still didn't know. She managed okay, but she was a snacker. I eventually gave up nursing because it was so difficult to handle her frequent nursing with a toddler too...but I found out later that the tongue tie probably was the cause of her struggles.

@Mamaof2: right?! lol - I had NO idea until my best friend was having issues and seeing specialists, etc

@Mamaof2: My thoughts exactly! Mine looks exactly like @rachiecakes, but I thought that was normal! My teeth are perfectly straight. I had a slight gap until I was about 10, and then it closed in by itself. I never had braces or a retainer or anything.

@pastemoo: do they look the same?

Bumping this to see if anyone else has experience. Our speech therapist wants us to ask our pediatrician's opinion before seeing a pediatric ENT. LO is almost three and she thinks having a tongue tie clipped would improve his speech.

@Charm54: any update?

@peaches1038: I hope everything goes smoothly tomorrow! Thanks for your reply. LO is going to the dentist at the end of next month so I will be sure to ask about it there too.

@jhd: so we had it done this afternoon. He ended up having his lip tie, tongue tie and four buccal ties lasered. I'm not going to lie, he was very afraid and I had to leave the building because I couldn't handle hearing him screaming. I am pretty sure he was not screaming in pain, he just was really scared. he was extremely distraught when they brought him back to us afterwards. He was shaking and sweating and clutched onto me and would not let go for anything. He calmed down pretty quickly, especially after we left. We just sat in the car for a little bit so he could settle himself and after just a few minutes he was laughing and playing with me. There was no blood or swelling or anything like that. Once we got home, we noticed immediately that he was able to open his mouth so much wider, his smile was bigger and he was moving his tongue A LOT! He ate great, played, nursed well and went to bed like normal. We just gave him one dose of Advil at about 3 and he didn't seem like he needed it before bed, but we have it ready in case. We've done the exercises twice and they aren't fun, but it's doable. The dr said 4x/day for 6 weeks. So far, he has handled it like a champ and just by the changes we've noticed so far, I'm good with our choice. I hope this helps you a bit and feel free to ask any questions!