The practice of cutting the frenulum under a newborn's tongue is surging in the US without scientific evidence.

“the classic example a practice right now that is surging in the United States is taking a newborn and cutting the frenulum under their tongue either routinely or if if it's a foreshortened tongue some people believe in routine and other people believe in only in foreshortened and other people believe never should be done”

“I'm not saying it's bad or wrong but I'm saying this desperately needs a randomized control trial desperately just like the penology study just like the antibiotic study do it in a cohort of a couple hundred randomization follow them take a look five years or whatever the study design is needed”

“these are people who are also cutting the frenulum under the upper inside lip and sometimes the side of the tongue and the frul under the tongue as all yeah so there's been babies that don't breastfeed because they're in pain from this and this practice is taking off like crazy it's driven a lot in dentistry it's in that lactation world of lactation Consultants could refer you to somebody and it's this Dogma that has never had any scientific evidence to support the claim”