Study's findings also could lead to fewer procedures that involve snipping baby's tongue
Doctors traditionally use a finger to gauge how well a baby suckles, but researchers at UC San Diego have come up with a new way to more precisely measure just how well each child gets the job done. Led by engineer James Friend, a team in the university's Medically Advanced Devices Laboratory rigged up a 'non-nutritive suckling system' by connecting a digital vacuum sensor to an ordinary disposable pacifier, allowing for 60 seconds of real-time continuous measurement.
Data collected on the babies measured during the UC San Diego study did find 'outliers' with lower-than-average sucking force and was able to pick up on an increase in vacuum power after frenotomy. But measurements also showed little gains for those whose force measured normal where frenotomy was performed, suggesting that some of these surgeries may indeed be unnecessary. But tongue-tie is thought to affect only about 7 percent of births.
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