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Arundeep K Lamba1, Kamal Aggarwal1, Farrukh Faraz1
1Department of Periodontics, Maulana Azad Institute of Dental Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian Journal of Dentistry
|September 23, 2015
Abstract:
Ankyloglossia or tongue-tie is the result of a short and tight lingual frenum causing difficulty in speech, feeding problems in infants due to the limitation of tongue movement. This report presents a case of a 22-year-old female with tongue-tie who complained of difficulty in speech following which she underwent frenectomy procedure with erbium, chromium: yattrium-scandium-gallium-garnet laser without any complications. She was referred to the speech therapist after the procedure.

