Clinical Exchange: Lingual Frenums and Frenectomies

Trudy Wilder; April Gelesko

doi:10.52010/ijom.1997.23.1.7

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1 November 1997

Clinical Exchange: Lingual Frenums and Frenectomies

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Int. J. Orofac. Myol. Myofunct. Ther.1997, 23(1), 47-49;https://doi.org/10.52010/ijom.1997.23.1.7

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Clinical experience has taught the orofacial myologist that sometimes exercises can stretch restrictive lingual frenums; sometimes surgical intervention is necessary. The authors present two case studies to illustrate the different scenarios.

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