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Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting times in New South Wales

The median wait for tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 50 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery".

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026.

34 public hospitals in New South Wales reported tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

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.

29 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 50 days marks the national median.

Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery in New South Wales public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 Sydney Children's Hospital 61 days not published 13 surgeries
2 Campbelltown Hospital 91 days not published 19 surgeries
3 The Children's Hospital at Westmead 208 days not published 13 surgeries
4 Wagga Wagga Hospital 352 days not published 10 surgeries
5 John Hunter Hospital 388 days not published 10 surgeries
unranked Auburn Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Ballina District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Blacktown Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Canterbury Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Dubbo Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Gosford Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Grafton Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Griffith Base Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Kempsey District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Lismore Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Liverpool Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Maitland Hospital not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Moruya Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Murwillumbah District Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Nepean Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Northern Beaches Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked Orange Health Service not published not published 5 surgeries
unranked Port Macquarie Base Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal North Shore Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Royal Prince Alfred Hospital not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St George Hospital NSW not published not published 6 surgeries
unranked St Vincent's Hospital [Darlinghurst] not published not published not published
unranked Sutherland Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Tweed Valley Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Westmead Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wollongong Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Wyong Hospital not published not published not published
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The median wait for tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery in New South Wales public hospitals was 134 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Tongue-tie or lip-tie surgery waiting times in NSW", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/lingual-or-maxillary-frenulum-surgery/nsw/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/lingual-or-maxillary-frenulum-surgery/nsw/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

Waiting times differ across state borders, and a referral can cross one — read what that means. Compare with every other state, or see every surgery reported in New South Wales.