The objective of this study was to investigate trends in ankyloglossia and its surgical treatment among pediatric patients South Korea from 2011 2020. Data Health Insurance Review Assessment Service (HIRA)’s Healthcare Bigdata Hub were used for analysis the diagnosis rate frenum surgery rate. Considering annual population change, crude rates per 100,000 calculated analyzed. To other factors inc...

BACKGROUND Many breastfeeding women have concerns about their milk supply; 'not enough milk' is the most common reason women give for stopping breastfeeding, however their concern is often unwarranted. OBJECTIVE The article describes the process of history taking and examination of mother and infant to determine if the mother's milk supply is adequate, the causes of insufficient milk supply, ...

BACKGROUND About 3% of infants are born with a tongue-tie which may lead to breastfeeding problems such as ineffective latch, painful attachment or poor weight gain. The Hazelbaker Assessment Tool for Lingual Frenulum Function (HATLFF) has been developed to give a quantitative assessment of the tongue-tie and recommendation about frenotomy (release of the frenulum). The aim of this study was to...

Feeding through a gastrostomy button (GB) provides benefits to the families of children on chronic dialysis. But data on the transition to oral feeding following renal transplantation--especially in children under 2--is scarce. Here, we report our experience of more than 14 years in 22 children who were GB fed at under 5 years of age (median age: 1.66 years; range: 0.25-4.25 years). We excluded...

This is a meaty book. Its 190 pages and 129 tables are crammed with facts about boys?1,349 of them. It is easy enough to collect a batch of facts from a selected set of boys, ones who are ready to talk. But it is a herculean labour to dig out specific facts from all the boys of a particular group who will linclude the tongue tied, the lazy, the shy, the facetious, the forgetful and the plain ni...