Like many of you, when I finished dental school, I had some idea of what a tongue-tie is and how it can impact speech and possibly gum recession. But in four years of dental school, we had only one slide on tongue-tie treatment, and in pediatric residency, we read only one article on tongue-ties, which was already ten years old and outdated.
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Find out why doctors choose the LightScalpel CO2 laser when performing functional frenectomies and frenuloplasties. This partial literature review emphasizes the importance of oro-myofunctional therapy and weighs the differences between the LightScalpel and other laser modalities when treating tethered oral tissues.
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Watch as Dr. Cara J. Riek performs two newborn tongue-tie releases using her LightScalpel CO2 laser. The newborn patients had difficulty breastfeeding among other symptoms. LightScalpel CO2 laser tongue- and
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Listen as Dr. Cara Riek shares her journey from the moment she started using LightScalpel CO2 lasers for tongue- and lip-tie releases (frenectomy) until now, when she has performed over
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A baby with an anterior (near or at the tip) tongue-tie or a hidden (submucosal) posterior tongue-tie is often born with a high arched palate. These common tethers keep the tongue in a low position in utero...
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Download / Print PDF By Shelly Klein, MD What is a Tongue-Tie? Ankyloglossia, or tongue-tie, is a common abnormality from birth where the tissue under the tongue (lingual frenum) is
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Clinical efficacy is largely based on the CO2 laser's excellent coagulation properties because of the close match between coagulation depth and gingival blood-capillary diameters. The CO2 laser also minimizes damage to surrounding tissues, reduces postoperative swelling and edema, and lowers the risks of complications, making it a superb surgical solution for mucocele removal.
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This study finds a very strong statistical correlation between restricted upper-lip frenums and unexpected and unexplained asphyxia (UUA) infant deaths.
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Dr. Winston Wing, a customer of LightScalpel, recently published an excellent article in a local magazine. In the article, he discusses the frenectomy procedure and explores the numerous applications and
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Brynn Leroux, DDS, shares her experience performing tongue- and lip-tie releases with a dental diode and a LightScalpel CO2 laser. Dr. Leroux is a board-certified pediatric dentist at Associates in
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Periodontist, Milton Geivelis, DDS, MS, has been using his LightScalpel laser since 2017. Dr. Geivelis reviews his experience using the LightScalpel dental CO2 laser, customer support, training and education, and
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Fifteen laser frenectomy providers from USA, Canada, and Europe compare their experiences using the LightScalpel CO2 laser vs scissors, electrocautery, and other surgical laser systems such as diode, erbium, and
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