Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting time at Queensland Children's Hospital
Half of patients at Queensland Children's Hospital waited 52 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 South Brisbane area of Queensland.
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
- 52 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
- Surgeries completed
- 31 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 10 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 178 days in 2016–17 to 52 days in 2024–25 — down 71% — while the national median fell from 61 days to 50 days. No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.
Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.
How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queensland Children's Hospital | 52 days | not published | 31 surgeries |
| New South Wales (all public hospitals) | 134 days | 16.6% | 151 surgeries |
| 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
Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 50 days marks the national median.
Gold Coast University Hospital, QLD · about 63 km away: 329 days
John Hunter Hospital, NSW · about 618 km away: 388 days
The Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW · about 729 km away: 208 days
Sydney Children's Hospital, NSW · about 735 km away: 61 days
Campbelltown Hospital, NSW · about 763 km away: 91 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 1000 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.
Some of these hospitals are in another state — a public hospital referral can cross the border, so ask your GP what that would mean for you. See also where crossing a border cuts the wait most.
How the wait has changed
- Queensland Children's Hospital
- QLD
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | Queensland Children's Hospital (days) | QLD (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 178 | 179 | 61 |
| 2017–18 | 89 | not published | 56 |
| 2018–19 | 140 | not published | 50 |
| 2019–20 | 142 | not published | 50 |
| 2020–21 | 83 | not published | 70 |
| 2021–22 | 99 | not published | 76 |
| 2022–23 | 118 | not published | 63 |
| 2023–24 | 83 | not published | 64 |
| 2024–25 | 52 | not published | 50 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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