Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery waiting time at The Children's Hospital at Westmead

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

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

Median wait: 208 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 15 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
The Children's Hospital at Westmead	208 days	not published	13 surgeries
New South Wales (all public hospitals)	134 days	16.6%	151 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.

Sydney Children's HospitalNSW · about 26 km away61 days
Campbelltown HospitalNSW · about 35 km away91 days
John Hunter HospitalNSW · about 117 km away388 days
Wagga Wagga HospitalNSW · about 364 km away352 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 456 km away16 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 500 km — the radius was widened because fewer than four hospitals published a figure within 250 km.

Some of these hospitals are in another state. Public hospital referrals can cross state borders. Ask your general practitioner (GP) what that would mean for you — see can my GP refer me to a different hospital?

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	The Children's Hospital at Westmead (days)	NSW (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	142	70	61
2017–18	155	85	56
2018–19	130	82	50
2019–20	240	87	50
2020–21	227	126	70
2021–22	340	139	76
2022–23	133	109	63
2023–24	187	100	64
2024–25	208	134	50

What is not here

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

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