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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">166</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>RELIEVING THE TIE: CASE SERIES OF MANAGEMENT OF TONGUE-TIE&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>J.</surname><given-names>Renganath M.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>T.</surname><given-names>Ramakrishnan</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>N.</surname><given-names>Manisundar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Sekhar</surname><given-names>Vidya</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>M.</surname><given-names>Ebenezer</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>P.</surname><given-names>Sivaranjani</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><volume>)</volume><issue/><fpage>18</fpage><lpage>21</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Aim: Ankyloglossia, which is also commonly known as tongue-tie, either partial or complete may lead to various difficulties and deformities that includes abnormal speech, mal-occlusion and inability in deglutination thus being an undesired problem in normal life activity. Various techniques like scalpel, laser, and electro-surgery have been performed for the past few decades in treating tongue-tie. Though, each techniquehas got their own advantages and disadvantages, all aimed at relieving the high muscle attachment to improve the movement of the tongue. Hence, scalpel have been preferred for treating the cases with ankyloglossia.&#13;
Case Report: This series of case reports of 2 cases with partial ankyloglossia, exhibiting speech difficulty along with restricted tongue movementswhich requires definitive treatment to correct the deformity.&#13;
Discussion: The outcome of the frenulectomy in the 2 cases using scalpel showed good healing with improved tongue movements than that of pre-operative movements thus achieving the primary objective of relieving the tongue-tie.&#13;
Conclusion: The clinical outcome following the surgical frenulectomy for the 2 cases treated by scalpel has shown better healing with improvement in tongue movements suggesting that surgical frenulectomy could be considered as the reliable technique for the treatment of ankyloglossia..&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Ankyloglossia</kwd><kwd> Tongue-tie</kwd><kwd> Surgical/scalpel frenulectomy</kwd><kwd> Speech defect</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
