Part of the UT Health San Antonio.
In this combination lecture and hands-on course. attendees will be introduced to the concept of laser frenectomies, an increasingly popular method by which dentists and physicians can treat tongue and lip ties in their patients.
5% or more of the babies born in the United States have such tight tongue-ties and
frenum pulls that they cannot successfully breastfeed. For the baby, serious consequences include loss of weight and the label of
"failure to thrive." For the mother, this results in soreness, mastitis,
painful engorgement, and postpartum depression due to an inability to nurse her baby. This has classically been treated by a physician taking a scalpel or a pair of scissors
to the newborn's mouth and cutting the attachment. The treatment of choice, however, is for a dentist to use laser technology to painlessly, bloodlessly remove the attachment, allowing the infant to immediately nurse.
Though many practitioners perform tongue-tie release, few are trained in the PEEL Technique®. This technique ensures that the 4 movements the tongue must make in order to nurse successfully can be performed:
Peristalsis
Elevation
Extension
Lateralization
This participation course will teach you how to:
In this course, you will learn best practices regarding tongue-tie assessment and treatment, and will participate in a hands-on workshop where you will learn how to remove tongue-ties through the use of soft-tissue lasers on pig jaws.
The hands-on portion of the program will be performed on pig jaws and includes complete instruction on performing lip and tongue tie releases. Each attendee of the course will perform releases on animal jaws.
At the conclusion of the course, participants will:
It is the policy of the UT Health San Antonio Office of Continuing Dental Education to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its sponsored educational activities. All participating speakers, course directors, and planning committee members are required to disclose to the program audience any financial relationships related to the subject matter of this program. Relationships of spouse/partner with proprietary entities producing health care goods or services should be disclosed if they are of a nature that may influence the objectivity of the individual in a position to control the content of the CDE activity. Disclosure information is reviewed in advance in order to manage and resolve any possible conflicts of interest. Specific disclosure information for each speaker, course director, and planning committee member will be shared with the audience prior to the speaker’s presentation.
Continuing Dental Education Staff members have nothing to disclose.
Check-in: 8:30 both days
Program time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM both days
UT Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry
(Check-in is the same time on both days.)
Hours: 12