Lingual Frenectomy (“Tongue Tie Surgery”)?

by Techdude on Saturday, January 28th, 2012 | No Comments

Question by : Lingual Frenectomy (“Tongue Tie Surgery”)?
I am scheduled to have a lingual frenectomy in about a week (the frenum under my tongue will be removed). If anyone has had this surgery–I am not scared as much for the actual procedure as I am for the healing process. I start school 8 days after the procedure–is this enough healing time? Will I have pain or speech problems? Thanks

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Answer by GG-HH
I haven’t had the surgery done but I need to because my frenulum is way too short, so probably I’ll schedule it after I get my braces off.

My dentist and some online research gave me useful information on this. As for your questions:
It’s great that you are not afraid of the procedure. It’s a minor thing and it’s done in a few minutes.

As for the healing process: there won’t be any complications apart from the normal ones (redness, itchiness, medium pain, low fever etc.) but there might be muscle pain when moving your tongue because your tongue will be eventually free and tongue muscles that were never used are now moving.

I think a week is the shortest period of a healing process, the big work will be done (the open wound will close, the stitches might be dissolved in half) and you’ll need proabably a month or so for a full recovery. But don’t worry, you won’t have a lot of problems at school talking and… eating