Hallie Bulkin argues that visual grades for lip ties miss the point. What matters is how the tie affects feeding, not its classification. Visual grades help with insurance paperwork, but function should drive whether a baby needs treatment.
Here's something else that I want to make super, super clear. Classification systems like the Class 3 lip tie, or an anterior lip tie or whatever people are calling it, because I see all kinds of different terms thrown around. They mean nothing without a functional impact. If there's no functional impact, whatever you want to label that tie is not helpful. So we have to stop relying on visual grades and start leading with function. Can visual grades be helpful, especially for, like, insurance reimbursement, if that, you know, they need to see numbers or classifications when it comes to actually creating a treatment plan and implementing that plan and treating the human, that feeding dyad, the infant and mother, for example. Right. We got to start looking at the functional impact and again, stop relying on numbers, grades, whatever. Okay?
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