A practical information from pediatric plastic surgeon about frenulotomia in cases with frenulum sublinguale breve

Summary

The article is a brief statement from the clinical practice of a plastic surgeon for congenital developmental defects of the face, which lists the segment from the surgical treatment of a short sublingual frenule in an otherwise healthy oral cavity 
(ie without a link, for example, with a splitting defect). There is mentioned the indication of the procedure, technique of surgery for weak and significant defects, postoperative nursing and continuation of long-term rehabilitation and speech therapy.

Keywords:

sublingual fistula – short sub-lingual fistula – dissection – frenulotomy – Z-sculpture