This is a video of Richard Baxter, DMD, MS, releasing a tongue-tie of a 27 year-old man who had an undiagnosed tongue-tie almost to the tip of the tongue. The
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Ben Sutter, DMD, of Eugene, OR, uses a LightScalpel CO2 laser to release a tongue-tie (frenectomy) on a young man who was kind enough to share his procedure and post-procedure
Watch the VideoLike 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treatment, and in pediatric residency, we read only one article on tongue-ties, which was already ten years old and outdated.
ContinueFind 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.
ContinueWatch 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
Watch the VideoListen 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
Watch the VideoA 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...
ContinueBen Sutter, DMD, of For Beautiful Smiles in Eugene, OR, uses his LightScalpel laser to release an adult tongue-tie that relieves decades of tension and pain. The patient, Jessica, has
Watch the VideoDownload / 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
ContinueWatch as Leonard Kundel, DMD, of Stamford, CT, performs a tongue-tie revision using a LightScalpel CO2 laser on an adult patient. “If airway is the king, then tongue is the
Watch the VideoArticle Summary. In order to rebuild the necessary orofacial function in children and adult patients, an extensive tongue-tie functional release includes the mandatory pre- and post frenectomy myofunctional therapy and the SuperPulse CO2 Laser frenectomy, preferably under topical anesthesia and combined with Tongue Movement Assessment for Ideal Release to achieve optimal function.
ContinueA tongue-tie functional release includes mandatory pre- and post myofunctional therapy and the CO2 laser frenectomy, preferably under topical anesthesia and combined with Tongue Movement Assessment to achieve optimal function.
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