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Tongue Tie May Be Overdiagnosed in Babies
NEW YORK — Tongue-tie—a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding—may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors’ group said Monday. The American Academy of Pediatrics is the latest, and largest, medical society to sound an alarm about the increasing use of scissors or lasers to cut away some infants’ tongue tissue when breastfeeding is difficult. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] “It’s almost an epidemic,” said Dr. Maya Bunik, a Colorado-based co-author of the report. Experts say there isn’t a good count of how many infants each year are being treated for tongue-tie with surgery, though Bunik believes the annual

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