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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
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By: Baxter, Richard | Published: September 2022 in Florida Academy of General Dentistry - Florida Focus
Download / Print this Article 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
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By: Vitruk, Peter | Published: 2020 in Dental Sleep Practice
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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By: Baxter, Richard | Published: 2018 in Dental Sleep Practice
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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Ben 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
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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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Watch 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
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Article 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.
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By: Fabbie, Paula, Kundel, Leonard, and Vitruk, Peter | Published: 2016 in Dental Sleep Practice
A 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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