Just hope that your tongue doesn't like slip into the back of your throat while your sleeping. That tongue web is holding it in place. I dunno if that could actually happen but it might be somethin you wanna think about.

I know a couple people who have had it removed, and that hasn't happened to them. But it is certainly worth checking into a little. That would be less than pleasant to wake up to.

IF you wake up. Your tongue web is the only thing preventing you from swallowing or choking on your tongue.

Hmm. I'm not saying that you are necessarily *wrong*, but in a nice way I am asking for any information you guys have to support this position. Lingual frenectomy is not an entirely uncommon procedure performed by oral surgeons for a number of different reasons, and I have never heard of someone swallowing or choking on their tongue as a result. Not like rarely, like _ever_. I actually asked a MD about it yesterday, and he told me that tongue swallowing is a myth, and that it isn't possible with or without a frenulum. Not that he is the be all end all authority or anything, he is just a guy with a degree. Dentists actually do this surgery fairly commonly so that people's dentures fit better. Doctors do it on kids to help their speech. I'm not sure what info you have that I don't have access to, but please provide me some links or something, because I would love to review it.

My sister was tongue tied at birth and had a good bit of hers removed.

::shrug::

Seems to me like complications would depend on how much is removed? Either way, I've heard of this being done before. Anyone remember Gibberish on the forum? Didn't he have his cut?

As far as actual tongue web piercings, mine grew out and left some scar tissue, so now I can't stick my tongue out as far,

Was still a neat piercing, and, over time, my tongue web is gradually regaining it's elasticity. For a long time after it grew out, it was verty hard to touch my nose with my tongue, whereas I can now do it easily again.

It depends on how much is cut and why.

Doctors' degrees mean NOTHING to me. There are plenty of idiots out there practicing medicine..

Like the ones that misdiagnosed my mother (over 3 ER visits) while she felt she was slowly dying, and would have had her regular doctor not skipped his lunch break to see her (and immediately admit her for emergency surgery).

Or the ones that sent me home from the ER time after time with antibiotics when my lungs were collapsing.

I've witnessed a girl choking on her tongue because of a lingual frenectomy. Tell that doctor where he can stick his "myth" speculation.

Yeah it could create a dangerous situation to have it removed.

It isn't listed as a risk on the BME wikipedia site.
http://wiki.bmezine.com/index.php/Tongue_frenectomy

But it is common sense.

Random, but according to that article snipping mine could help me. I have no prayer of ever sticking my tongue out and touching my tongue.

I think getting it cut to losen it is one thing, but completely cutting it out is another.