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Research Review: Evaluating Current Evidence on Tongue-Tie in Breastfeeding Infants
Wilai Rojjanasrirat, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FILCA, FAAN is a Professor and Director of Research and Scholarship at Graceland University's School of Nursing in Independence, Missouri. Her background is in midwifery and maternal and child health nursing.
She is an international board certified lactation consultant. She earned her Bachelor's in Nursing and Midwifery from Thailand and Master's and Doctorate and Post-Doctorate in Nursing from the University of Kansas. She teaches in graduate nursing program. Her research focuses on promoting and supporting breastfeeding, psychometric development, and educational outcome evaluation.
Examining racial discrimination, maternal mental health, and breastfeeding outcomes, using telehealth in providing lactation support, and evaluation of the breastfeeding outcomes among late-preterm, near term, and term infants are among some of the research projects.
Dr. Rojjanasrirat has multiple publications and recently contributed to a book chapter on Employment and Breastfeeding in Wambach & Spencer, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, 7th edition in 2024. She served as a former president of the Pi Eta Chapter of the Nursing Honor Society, a board member of the Kansas City Board of Directors of Kansas City, Kansas, and a former president of the Greater Kansas City Lactation Consultant Association for several years.
Topic: Research Review: What the Evidence Tells Us About Improving Breastfeeding Outcomes - [View Abstract]
Topic: Understanding Lactation-Related Research - [View Abstract]
Despite a growing amount of research and interest on neonatal ankyloglossia or ‘tongue tie’ in breastfeeding infant for the last decades, evidence regarding indications of diagnosis, and effectiveness of treatment or management remain unclear and controversial. The purpose of this presentation is to report the results of an integrative review on available evidence on tongue-tie issues and whether specific tongue-tie interventions improve breastfeeding outcomes. Database searches including PubMed, Cochrane, and CINAH will be conducted using keywords such as ‘ankyloglossia’, ‘tongue-tie’, ‘lingual frenum’, diagnosis and treatment/management of tongue-tie to locate evidence from 2014 to 2024. The presentation will summarize the current consensus and controversial on ‘tongue-tie’ among healthcare professionals. The overall effectiveness of frenotomy on improved breastfeeding outcomes will be discussed. The quality of collective evidence including strengths and weaknesses of research will be presented. The goal of this presentation is to provide the most up-to-date evidence to lactation professionals who assist breastfeeding mothers and infants regarding tongue tie management to apply the current information to everyday clinical practice. The implications of this evidence review will help improve lactation professionals’ understanding of the controversies surrounding ankyloglossia in breastfeeding infants that lead to a more collaborative and family-centered care.
