Bridle of tongue is a fine line

A thin film, called the tongue bridle, helps to connect our tongue to the bottom of the mouth. Only thanks to it we can articulate, show tongue, lick ice cream, and, in general, perform any actions with language.

The normal length of the bridle is about three centimeters in an adult. A tongue fringe is considered short if attached too close to its end. With such a pathology, a person can not perform various actions by language, and also speech is most often broken. Such pathology can be formed during pregnancy and childbirth. And also, if your relatives had it, it is possible that your child can also manifest.

A short frenum of the tongue in a newborn is noticeable almost immediately. The baby can not attach to the breast, and during breastfeeding the breast often slips, the baby sucks for a very long time, fits. If suddenly it turned out that your baby has a short bridle of tongue, then the doctor of the hospital will definitely reveal it and they will inform you. In any case, if they do not cut it in the hospital, then the bridle can be cut only before the school, because by this time there are speech defects and, naturally, all this time the child may find it difficult to chew food, but this depends on the severity of the disease .

A short frenum of the tongue does not always require surgical intervention. Only if your child is difficult to suck a breast or a bottle, then the bridle is cut right in the hospital. If with breastfeeding problems did not arise - you with a calm conscience will be sent home, and there you yourself will follow the development of the disease, in time to show the dentist. If the child can not show the tongue, and also, if the tongue periodically folds with a groove with a characteristic click sound - you need to go to a specialist.

This pathology can lead to deformity of the child's speech, as well as provoke various problems with the lower jaw, namely: the emergence of periodontitis and gingivitis.

If everything was fine in the maternity home and after with your child, but by the time he was five years old he had not learned how to pronounce the sibilants correctly, pronouncing the letter "R", then it would be best to see the doctor. If he denies you in the operation to cut the tongue of the tongue, then you have a direct road to the speech therapist, with his help, and also, by performing various exercises, you can stretch the bridle and restore the speech.

There are special complexes for stretching the bridle, which ones - the doctor will advise you, based on your situation. Most often the child is asked to reach out to the chin, nose. In order to really remove such a pathology, everyday lessons with the child are necessary until the necessary result, the main thing is that the earlier the lessons are started, the faster it can be corrected. Sometimes for older children the doctor can advise a speech therapy massage, but this procedure is extremely unpleasant and painful.

There are such situations that the child fell and hit his mouth, while the bridle of the tongue breaks, the parents rush to the doctor in a hurry. In this situation, there is nothing terrible, everything grows, unless, of course, the impact was not very strong and did not hurt the teeth and gum. Sewing does not need anything, the only thing that sometimes arises in this case is problems with the healing of the bridle because of constant movement. In this situation, you need to contact the surgeon for help, he will cut the bridle in the right place, and in the future it will grow right and will not interfere with the child.

To avoid problems with speech and the formation of teeth - regularly visit the dentist, and at the age of five - the speech therapist. Even in the absence of pathologies of physical and mental development of these doctors must be visited from time to time.