Tongue and lip ties are very common, and can sometimes cause a significant functional limitation in your infant, child, or yourself (adults). The most current research states that tongue ties are as common as 1 in 5 people.

If you can answer yes to having some of the below symptoms, it may be worth your while to be evaluated for a tie:

Babies:

• Shallow or poor latch
• Noisy eating (clicking, smacking noises)
• ‘Messy’ eating (milk spills out of mouth)
• Slow or poor weight gain
• Spit up, reflux
• A lot of gas, colic
• Baby falls off nipple often
• Nursing for an excessive amount of time, or extremely often

Symptoms in Mom: 

• Painful nursing
• Damaged nipples: Creased, flattened, blanched, blistered, or cut nipples
• plugged ducts
• Poor breast drainage

Children: 

• Speech issues, issues with sounds, and/or syllables
• Hard to understand, communication is frustrating
• Speech delay
• Slow and or picky eater
• Packing food in cheeks
• Snores, sleeps in funny positions, seems restless while sleeping
• Grinds teeth at night
• Headaches and neck pain

Adults: 

• Snores
• Mouth breathing
• TMD
• Grinds teeth
• Headaches and neck pain
• Intimacy issues
• Speech issues (stuttering, speech impediment, trouble speaking fast)