Are you concerned about tongue tie?
Tongue tie (Ankyloglossia) occurs when the connecting skin under a baby’s tongue is too short or extends too far towards the front of the tongue.
Although tongue-tie affects only approximately 4% of children, it can have a profound impact on the entire family.
Tongue-tie can result in problems with the following:
- Breastfeeding
- Swallowing
- Speech
- Jaw Growth
- Dental Decay
- Upper and lower jaw development
- Tooth alignment problems and more…
Now for the good news: even for infants, tongue-tie can be treated in a simple, fast and highly effective way with laser treatment.

As a mother of two, Dr Kar Mun Chan has herself overcome the challenges of tongue-tie. Combining her experience as a Paediatric Dental Specialist with a firsthand understanding of what parents go through, she treats families going through the difficulties of oral restriction while bringing considerable clinical expertise.
The Kiddies Infant Care Team are highly skilled in providing an alternative to traditional tongue-tie surgery. Dr. Kar Mun Chan has spent considerable time researching and practicing gentle laser treatment for oral restriction.
Laser Therapy is preferable to traditional surgery, as it’s highly precise, minimally invasive and involves less pain and tissue trauma. Best of all, the treatment takes mere minutes, completely removes the problematic tissue, and has a quick healing and recovery time.
Dr Kar Mun’s personal experience
Hi I’m Kar Mun and I want to share my journey from a struggling mum trying to breastfeed my first child to a Paediatric Dentist offering a solution to tongue tie & lip tie. I find it rewarding to give Mothers another chance to feed their child when all else has failed.
The topic of “tongue-tie” or oral restriction is close to Dr. Chan’s heart as Dr. Chan’s eldest child was affected by tongue tie. The advice she received from health experts, including her paediatrician, maternal child health nurse and lactation consultant, was that her babies tongue tie may or may not be the cause of difficulty in breastfeeding she was experiencing.
To manage the challenges of breast feeding she faced with her baby, Dr. Chan was encouraged to express breast milk and bottle feed her daughter, and then top up with formula. She was not given the recommendation to have the tongue tie addressed surgically. Consequently, Dr. Chan missed an opportunity to establish a breastfeeding relationship with her child, a relationship that is so important between a mother and her new born.
Some fifteen months later, Dr. Chan’s second child was born, and as the baby was not affected by tongue-tie she was able to experience the richness of the breastfeeding bond established between a mother and her baby. She can provide minimally invasive laser therapy to quickly remedy tongue-tie.
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Our Buckley Street practice is different to a paediatric dentist in lots of ways, quieter environment, multiple waiting areas, nursing areas for you and your baby and off street parking.
Conveniently located at 50 Buckley Street in Essendon, our aim to create a stress-free experience for both parents and infants/children including the following modifications: