Pediatric Tongue- and Lip-Ties and Laser Frenectomies with LIVE SURGERY Demonstrations 2024

Pediatric Tongue- and Lip-Ties and Laser Frenectomies with LIVE SURGERY Demonstrations 2024 is organized by American Laser Study Club (ALSC) and will be held from Apr 19 - 20, 2024 at Red Rock Periodontics & Implantology, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.

Description:
Enhance your understanding of the issues of pediatric laser dentistry, including tongue-ties and lip-ties! As many as 5 percent of all babies born in the US have tongue-ties significant enough to cause breastfeeding difficulties. Affected babies often fail to thrive and can be erroneously labeled as “lazy nursers” or “stubborn feeders.”

A good surgical laser for cutting soft tissue must be able to vaporize soft tissue, while at the same time efficiently coagulating surgical margins. Not all laser wavelengths are suitable to comply with both requirements. This course focuses on the practical aspects of soft tissue laser surgery and on the fundamental processes involved in the laser-tissue interaction; it helps attendees learn how deep the laser beam cuts and how deep the coagulation and hemostasis extend into the surgical margins. Our hands-on participation lab is designed to train attendees on what surgical lasers can do safely and efficiently.
 

Clinical Curriculum
• Background and significance of TOTS;
• Diagnosis of pediatric tongue- and lip-ties;
• Multi-disciplinary approach to treating pediatric tongue- and lip-ties;
• Lactation support for the breastfeeding tongue-tied dyad;
• Bodywork and alternative therapy for the tongue-tied baby;
• Setting expectations with families and patients;
• Current methods of clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric lingual and labial ties.

Attendees will:
• Describe infant sucking physiology and how tongue-ties impair infant suck;
• Appropriately use reliable diagnostic criteria to screen babies and children for this condition;
• Clearly express orthodontic-myofunctional connection;
• Discuss how the soft tissues of the orofacial complex may lead to malocclusion, TMD, headaches, and other problems; and
• List and define all the consequences and benefits of using lasers to remove oral restrictions.
• In addition, attendees will learn to remove oral restrictions using soft-tissue lasers through observing live surgery demonstrations.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.