Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]
Half of patients at The Northern Hospital [Epping] waited 25 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 Lalor area of Victoria.
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
- 25 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 7 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.
The median wait here has fallen from 75 days in 2016–17 to 25 days in 2024–25 — down 67% — while the national median fell from 61 days to 50 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], about 17 km away, at 18 days.
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How this compares
| Where | Median wait | Waited more than 365 days | Surgeries |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Northern Hospital [Epping] | 25 days | not published | 31 surgeries |
| Victoria (all public hospitals) | 20 days | 0.9% | 223 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.
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus], VIC · about 17 km away: 18 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne], VIC · about 17 km away: 11 days
Box Hill Hospital, VIC · about 20 km away: 23 days
The Alfred, VIC · about 22 km away: 11 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], VIC · about 30 km away: 10 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton], VIC · about 33 km away: 61 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital], VIC · about 103 km away: 26 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus], VIC · about 237 km away: 16 days
Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.
How the wait has changed
- The Northern Hospital [Epping]
- VIC
- Australia
View these numbers as a table
| Reference period | The Northern Hospital [Epping] (days) | VIC (days) | Australia (days) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016–17 | 75 | 27 | 61 |
| 2017–18 | 45 | 27 | 56 |
| 2018–19 | 60 | 18 | 50 |
| 2019–20 | 31 | 18 | 50 |
| 2020–21 | 29 | 20 | 70 |
| 2021–22 | not published | 19 | 76 |
| 2022–23 | 191 | 22 | 63 |
| 2023–24 | 49 | 23 | 64 |
| 2024–25 | 25 | 20 | 50 |
Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.
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