May 9, 2024

Learning about tongue tie at University of Bristol

Prof Jenny Ingram has developed a number excellent and user-friendly scales for quantifying tongue tie to determine whether or not a child should have a tongue tie clipped to assist with breast feeding. I had a fascinating online meeting with her this week. Here are some of her excellent papers: 

Emond, A., Ingram, J., Johnson, D., Blair, P., Whitelaw, A., Copeland, M., & Sutcliffe, A. (2014). Randomised controlled trial of early frenotomy in breastfed infants with mild–moderate tongue-tie. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 99(3), F189–F195. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2013-305031 

Ingram, J., Copeland, M., Johnson, D., & Emond, A. (2019). The development and evaluation of a picture tongue assessment tool for tongue-tie in breastfed babies (TABBY). International Breastfeeding Journal, 14(1), 31. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13006-019-0224-y 

Ingram, J., Johnson, D., Copeland, M., Churchill, C., Taylor, H., & Emond, A. (2015). The development of a tongue assessment tool to assist with tongue-tie identification. Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition, 100(4), F344-F349. https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2014-307503