Treating newborn lip and tongue ties with extra love and care
Get a personalized care plan for both mommy and baby with TTWL
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Our approach
At TTWL, Dr. Bethany Kum takes a conservative, holistic, and collaborative care approach to frenectomies (aka lip and tongue tie releases) providing traditional and alternative methods to baby's functional oral health. You aren’t pushed into unnecessary procedures and you’ll never be rushed to make a decision.
Dr. Bethany is here to listen to your concerns and goals so together, a game plan will be created with your family and team of providers that's personalized to you and your baby's needs.
Being a Mom herself and having gone through her own tongue tie journey with her daughter, she knows how vital it is to have support, empowerment, love, and care on your feeding journey and beyond with your baby.
Our story
After going through her own tongue tie journey with her daughter, Dr. Bethany set out to create an experience filled with support, empowerment, love, and care for families considering a frenectomy.
What to expect in your frenectomy consult
Nervous? Here’s a sample of the love and care you get during a consult with Dr. Bethany.
*video created with love by Lauren Archer of Love of a Little One
“25 seconds after, and he started nursing for the first time in his life, easily and comfortably.”
Megan Ketch | Mother
“The level of care from Dr. Bethany since day one has been above and beyond.”
Max Deacon | Father
“We had no reputable providers in our area, so we flew in and 100% would recommend. Thank you Dr. Bethany!”
Janet, Nick, and baby Khailani
FAQs
WHAT ARE TONGUE AND LIP TIES?
Everyone has a band of tissue known as a lingual (tongue) frenulum that helps anchor the tongue to the floor of the mouth and a lip frenulum that connects the lip to the mouth. When that frenulum is either too short, thick, or tight, it restricts the lip and tongue movement. When the tongue is prevented from moving properly and freely, it will have a negative impact on breastfeeding, sleeping, eating, speaking, oral development, oral stimulation, and more, just to name a few.
Infants born with lip or tongue ties often have difficulty latching with other symptoms, leading many mothers to abandon their breastfeeding efforts and goals. Breastfeeding is important in delivering nutritional and immunologic protection for the child, and also helps with mom and baby’s bond. Approximately 3-15% of babies are negatively affected by a tongue tie in which they cannot move their tongues freely due to its tightness. Our hope is to help bring education to your family to help catch these restrictions in the mouth early to help babies thrive at a younger age.
Dr. Bethany has taken many courses that are tongue-tied focused and truly understands that releasing your child’s restriction in the mouth is only one part of a successful treatment outcome. Dr. Bethany is all about a team approach for you and your baby. She believes in getting a functional assessment by a specialist to help provide exercises to retrain tongue movement or tension relief prior to the frenectomy procedure.
Get in touch.
As a mom herself, Dr. Bethany knows how much you love your baby and how important it is to connect with a doctor who understand you and your baby’s needs.