Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting time at Perth Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Perth Children's Hospital waited 42 days or less for tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The source publishes this surgery as "Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery". This public hospital is in the Crawley area of Western Australia.
Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.
These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.
- Median wait
- 42 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 30 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Waited more than 365 days
- not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.
Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 18 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 9 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 84 days in 2018–19 to 42 days in 2024–25 — down 50% — while the national median stayed at 50 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perth Children's Hospital | 42 days | not published | 30 surgeries |
| Western Australia (all public hospitals) | not published | not published | 47 surgeries |
| Australia (all public hospitals) | 50 days | 6.0% | 496 surgeries |
Where the wait is shorter nearby
No other public hospital within 1,000 km published a figure for this surgery in this period.
How the wait has changed
- Perth Children's Hospital
- WA
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Perth Children's Hospital (days) | WA (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | not reported for this period | not published | 61 |
| 2017–18 | not published | not published | 56 |
| 2018–19 | 84 | not published | 50 |
| 2019–20 | 91 | not published | 50 |
| 2020–21 | 67 | not published | 70 |
| 2021–22 | 106 | not published | 76 |
| 2022–23 | 108 | not published | 63 |
| 2023–24 | 76 | not published | 64 |
| 2024–25 | 42 | not published | 50 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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