The tongue is maybe the most importnt organ of the body.The proofs to that assumption are numerous-but in most cases had some how slipped out of the researching eye, and so had the outcome of it's malfunctions- very often mistaken to be whatever the relevant phisician knows about that looks alike .The healthy tongue clears the mouth,ears,noze,sinuses,tonsils,taste-buds and seals the entrance to the lungs as it swallows.It's free function is in charge of saliva-productin,strong peristalsis,massage of the thiroid gland,formation of the nazzal airways,order of the teeth, proper speech, kneading of the food.Those and more.
Short or tied-tongue (Ankiloglossy) or as we now tend to call it -Sub functional- is a very small reason to a miriad of huge problems in babies and in adults [ which are our main interest !] :1. Nursing - nipple pain and bruising , Long term and insufficient breastfeeding , weight-loss and dehidration ,decline of immune abilities ,Short sleep , Mother and baby tension and anger , Gas-pain , Milk reflux , Tongue or breast-fungi , Jaundice , Air-way congestion due to twisted bone growth of the upper palate ( i.e. the bottom of the nose), Ear infections and plugging -up to partial loss of hearing due to week swallow (-inability to drain the eustachian canals). 2. As an outcome of the above - An abundance of antibiotics ( And their short and long term side-effects on the immune system ect. ), The giving up of breast-milk for artificials and/or cow-milk (the direct cause of at least 1,600,000 baby deaths around the globe yearly !) which is also a reason for much of Child-diabetes,Obesity and their morbidity rates.3.more- A life with a congested nose ,Allergies,sinuses ,bronchitis,e.n.t. problems,a strong gag-reflex,refusal to eat hard or grainy foods ,digestion problems (constapation mainly but gas and others too),hormones,pronounciation and speech (lisping ,snoring,apnea,carries,orthodontics,tonsils-adenoid removal,tubes in ears,maybe even cradle-deaths ,thyroid ,light and troubled sleep,weary days. And to top al those-think of all the Doctors the medications,opperatios,side-effects and lost days.
All those can be treated in 30 seconds - in babies - or up to 7 minutes in children and adults -no anasthesia or sutures and relativly almost no pain. In babies a simultanous upper-lip and lingual sub-mucosal frenectomys assure an open-wide and efficiently-sucking mouth.
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