Lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery waiting time at The Alfred

The median wait for lingual or maxillary frenulum surgery at this public hospital in the South Yarra area of Victoria was 11 days in 2024–25.

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: 11 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 17 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 2 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 17 days in 2016–17 to 11 days in 2024–25 — down 35% — while the national median fell from 61 days to 50 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin], about 11 km away, at 10 days.

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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 Alfred	11 days	not published	17 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 4 km away11 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 6 km away18 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 11 km away10 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 13 km away23 days
Monash Medical Centre [Clayton]VIC · about 18 km away61 days
The Northern Hospital [Epping]VIC · about 22 km away25 days
Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital]VIC · about 105 km away26 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 Alfred (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	17	27	61
2017–18	8	27	56
2018–19	17	18	50
2019–20	38	18	50
2020–21	8	20	70
2021–22	not published	19	76
2022–23	13	22	63
2023–24	not published	23	64
2024–25	11	20	50

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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