The PEEL Technique: A New Paradigm in Pediatric Tongue-Tie Treatment: A Two-day Course
About This Event
In this two-day 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. Five percent or more of the babies born in the United States have such tight tongue-ties and frenum pulls that they cannot successfully latch onto their mother’s nipple and breastfeed. For the baby, serious consequences include loss of weight and the label of “failure to thrive”. For the mother, this results in sore and cracked nipples, mastitis, painful engorgement and post-partum 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 course will cover the necessary data collection, clinical examination, evaluation for the procedure, and performing the procedure using laser technology. Attendees will also have the opportunity to network with lactation consultants, pediatricians, neonatologists, and other members of the medical team, and learn how to grow their practice of neonatal dentistry.
Learning Objectives
- Accumulate all of the required data via history intake forms
- Perform a clinical examination to arrive at the correct diagnosis
- Evaluate when this procedure should be done
- Perform the procedure using laser technology
- Network with lactation consultants, pediatricians, neonatologists and the rest of the medical team
- Grow your practice of neonatal dentistry