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Ankyloglossia: Clinical and Sociodemographic Predictors of Diagnosis and Management in the United States, 2004 to 2019.

Eric X WeiKara D MeisterKarthik BalakrishnanAlan G ChengZhen Jason Qian
Published in: Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (2023)
Ankyloglossia has been increasingly diagnosed in the past 2 decades, and among patients with ankyloglossia, frenotomy is increasingly performed. This trend was driven at least in part due to increasing rates of pediatricians as proceduralists. After accounting for maternal and patient-level clinical factors, socioeconomic differences in the management of ankyloglossia were observed.
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