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2025 Participation Series:

October 18

Neonatal & Infant Tongue Tie Release: Diagnosis & Treatment

Saturday, October 18, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Maritime Conference Center
Building 3 | Room A307
692 Maritime Blvd| Linthicum Heights

Lunch is provided

In this combination lecture and hands-on 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. With 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 four movements the tongue must make in order to nurse successfully can be performed:  Peristalsis, Elevation, Extension, and Lateralization.

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The HANDS-ON portion of the program will be performed on tissue samples and pig jaws and includes complete instruction on performing lip and tongue tie releases.  Each attendee of the course will perform releases on animal jaws.

Course Objectives:

Participants in this course will gain knowledge in the following areas:

 

  1. Accumulate all of the required data via history intake forms

  2. Perform a clinical examination to arrive at the correct diagnosis

  3. Evaluate when this procedure should be done

  4. Perform the procedure using laser technology

  5. Network with lactation consultants, pediatricians, neonatologists, and the rest of the medical team

  6. Grow your practice of neonatal dentistry

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AGD 310 Oral/Maxiofacial Surgery OR
AGD 430 Pediatric Dentistry
CE Credit:  8 or 16 Lecture/Participation

with Robert Convissar, DDS

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About our Speaker:

Dr. Robert Convissar is a pioneer in the field of laser dentistry.  One of the first dentists in the world to incorporate lasers into general practice he has close to 4 decades of experience with CO2, Diode, Erbium, Nd.YAG and PBM wavelengths. He has authored over twenty peer-reviewed papers and 7 laser textbooks. An international lecturer from New York to London to Sydney to Tokyo to Dubai to Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and everywhere in between, he has delivered close to 400 Laser Certification and Laser Tongue Tie Certification courses worldwide. He practices laser-assisted dentistry in New York City. He is the only dentist in the world to have the triad of awards: Diplomate of the American Board of Laser Surgery; Fellow of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery; Master of the Academy of Laser Dentistry; as well as being a Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry.

 

His seminal textbook Principles and Practice of Laser Dentistry, now in its 3rd edition, has been the standard textbook on laser dentistry for over a decade – translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Polish, with more translations pending. He is the co-author of Color Atlas of Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Laser Frenectomy – the first textbook in the world on the subject. He practices laser dentistry in New York City, where he also serves as Director of Laser Dentistry at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Queens. He is the only dentist from the USA on the faculty of the world famous Master’s Degree Program in Laser Dentistry at the University of Genoa (Italy). 

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