LETTER
Tongue ties and breast feeding
1 Southampton General Hospital, UK; mervyn.griffiths@suht.swest.nhs.uk
Keywords: tongue tie; breast feeding
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The humble tongue tie, like the foreskin, generates enormous quantities of hot air, with little evidence to support it. I welcome the decision by the Archives of Disease in Childhood to commission a Perspective on tongue tie1 in the same month that NICE2 has issued its positive guidance on the same topic.
Hall and Renfrew begin by stating their bias. Mine is that the Archives of Disease in Childhood rejected my two articles on tongue tie, a prospective series and a randomised control trial,3,4 both now published by other peer reviewed journals, but which the Archives of Disease in Childhood rejected following very poor quality "peer review", and compounded the error by referring me to my Medical Director as someone who was performing procedures which were unethical. This charge was rejected by my Trust.
The interesting question here is how to persuade an intelligent, professional body (in this case, paediatricians),
2 Institute of General Practice and Primary Care, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU, UK; d.hall@sheffield.ac.uk
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