Randomised controlled trial of early frenotomy in breastfed infants with mild-moderate tongue-tie

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Emond, Alan ^a   Ingram, Jenny ^a   Johnson, Debbie ^a   Blair, Peter ^a   Whitelaw, Andrew ^a   Copeland, Marion ^b   Sutcliffe, Alastair ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANKYLOGLOSSIA; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRENOTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORAL SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PARALLEL DESIGN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SWALLOWING;

INFANT FEEDING; NEONATOLOGY; NUTRITION;

BREAST FEEDING; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINGUAL FRENUM; MALE; MIDWIFERY; MOTHERS; MOUTH ABNORMALITIES; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84898539734     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2013-305031     Document Type: Article

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