DENT-5-02197 - ONSITE The Peel Technique ® A New Paradigm in Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Treatment
Course Description
The Peel Technique ® - A New Paradigm in Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Treatment
5% 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 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
Learner Outcomes
This course will teach the dental team how to:
- 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
Attendees will be able to see proper technique from both real-time videos of the procedure and from the instructor demonstrating the procedure on a pig mandible during the course.
At the conclusion of the course, participants will:
- Be able to diagnose anterior and posterior tongue ties
- Understand the criteria for treating tongue and lip ties
- Know the advantages of the Peel Technique® over other techniques
- Understand which laser wavelengths are most appropriate for performing tongue and lip tie releases
Notes
Contact
Continuing Dental Education
11245 Anderson Street, Suite 120
Loma Linda, CA 92350
909-558-4685
continuinged@llu.edu
Accrediting Associations
- Academy of General Dentistry Approval Number AGD 135 & 490 7.0 hours