Rauk Family Dentistry

02/23/2025

02/21/2025

Congratulations Dr. Tom Tardif - Physical Therapy & Sports Performance on winning first 🥇place for his scientific research poster presentation at the American Equilibration Society’s 70th annual scientific session during the Chicago Midwinter Dental Meeting!

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01/04/2024

Thank you Sierra Wiegman for your kind review. We love helping these families!

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Let's start with the receptionist, she was so pleasant from the first phone conversation I had with her. She asked me multiple questions and vise versa. We scheduled an appointment and hung up.. 3 minutes later I remembered something else and called back. I apologized that I was calling again but she was happy to (answer) all my questions. When we arrived for our appointment she had a smile on her face as I started to fill out paperwork my baby exploded out her diaper and on her clothes. She didn't hesitate but to get up and provide me a place to change her and feed her. Then we were greeted by Shannon with a smile on her face. She brought us back started asking questions until Dr. Rauk came in. I never felt rushed, all of my questions were answered. Not short answers either. She took time to explain everything in detail, she even shared personal experiences. I was relieved I wasn't crazy! Something was wrong and she was willing to help us. I already feel like feeds are feeling better! She truly has the BEST team. I cant thank you enough Dr. Rauk! I would recommend her to anyone.

12/20/2023

The New York Times recently published an article "The Booming Business of Tongue-Tie"

This blog post by Dr. Richard Baxter is in response to it. I have been doing frenectomy procedures on infants, children and adults since 2018. I began not knowing that it would soon become a significant part of my practice. Now, I can not imagine
NOT doing this life changing work we do with these families.

A recent New York Times (NYT) article accused all tongue-tie providers of over-treatment, harming babies, taking advantage of vulnerable moms and babies, and, of course, doing it purely for financial gain. Tongue-tie naysayers jump on the article and share it - “See! I told you so!” and, in so d...

12/12/2023

Thank you Sara for your trust and this kind review. It is such a privilege to care for these families.

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Dr. Rauk is amazing. I really wish I would have known more about tongue and lip ties 12 years ago with my first kid. I learned about lip ties when my four year old had cavities on his front teeth because we couldn’t get his lip up to brush so his dentist fixed his undiagnosed lip tie. So I met Dr. Rauk with baby number three at almost 3 months old when I was in so much pain I pretty much gave up breastfeeding but then my baby was rejecting bottles and would get so frustrated I knew that I had to do something and a friend recommended Dr. Kim Rauk. When I first met her she described all three of my breastfeeding experiences exactly. Breastfeeding was painful and looked so unnatural for me, I kept blaming myself and it was my fault that I wasn’t making enough milk. She looked at my baby and said he has a bad lip and tongue tie. I said that when he was born, but people kept saying no he looks fine, he eats, he is gaining weight so it isn’t a problem. The next morning after his revision he nursed and I had no pain. I was able to nurse him for 10 months and learned it wasn’t me.

I took all the information that I learned from Dr. Rauk and I now use it when I see moms as a lactation counselor. Now with baby number 4 I spotted the lip and tongue tie right away and again had terrible pain and blisters and bleeding. Dr. Rauk saw my baby at 1 week old did the revision and I noticed improvement by the next feeding and by 2 weeks all my symptoms were resolved and my baby was happier and breastfeeding looks more “natural!”
Thanks again Dr. Rauk and wonderful assistants.
—Sara Hoffman