Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting time at Cairns Hospital
The median wait for tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery at Cairns Hospital in 2024–25 is not published by the source (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery". This public hospital is in the Cairns North area of Queensland.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
The source did not publish a median wait for this surgery at this hospital in 2024–25. Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator. The hospital is shown here unranked rather than ranked on a number that does not exist.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
- Surgeries completed
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — too few
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
This hospital is not ranked for this surgery.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairns Hospital | not published | not published | not published |
| Queensland (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 71 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 50 days | 6.0% | 496 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
Cairns Hospital did not publish a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, so there is no list of nearer alternatives to compare it against.
How the wait has changed
- Cairns Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Cairns Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not published | 179 | 61 |
| 2017–18 | not reported for this period | not published | 56 |
| 2018–19 | not published | not published | 50 |
| 2019–20 | not reported for this period | not published | 50 |
| 2020–21 | not reported for this period | not published | 70 |
| 2021–22 | not reported for this period | not published | 76 |
| 2022–23 | not published | not published | 63 |
| 2023–24 | not published | not published | 64 |
| 2024–25 | not published | not published | 50 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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