Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery waiting time at The Northern Hospital [Epping]

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: 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.

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 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 away18 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 17 km away11 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 20 km away23 days
The AlfredVIC · about 22 km away11 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 30 km away10 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 33 km away61 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 103 km away26 days
Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus]VIC · about 237 km away16 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

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 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

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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