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ONTARIO AGD Fellowtrack Courses

March 21-22, 2025 ontarioagd@gmail.com | 647 464 3741

Friday & Saturday Neonatal and Infant Tongue Tie Release:
8:30am - 4:30pm
Diagnosis and Treatment
Introducing The Peel Technique ® - A New Paradigm in Pediatric Tongue Tie Treatment
$995 with AGD
Membership
COURSE OUTLINE
$1195 for This course includes a certified lactation consultant, a critically important part
non-Members of the tongue tie release team.
In this combination lecture and hands-on course, attendees will be
Location introduced to the concept of laser frenectomies, an increasingly popular
method by which dentists and physicians can treat tongue and lip ties in
Shaw Dental Lab their patients.
105 Bentworth Ave
Unit 1 5% or more of the babies born in the United States have such tight
Noth York, ON tongue-ties and frenum pulls that they cannot successfully latch onto their
M6A 1P6
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
AGD Subject
Code 135 post-partum depression due to an inability to
(12 Participation hours) 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
12 Category 2 attachment. The treatment of choice, however, is for a dentist to use laser
RCDSO hours technology to painlessly, bloodlessly remove the attachment, allowing the
infant to immediately nurse.
Meals included Though many practitioners perform tongue-tie release, few are trained in
Free Parking 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.
Limited
Attendance
Learning Objectives:
Visit ontarioagd.org • Accumulate all of the required data via history intake forms
to register or email
ontarioagd • Perform a clinical examination to arrive at the correct diagnosis
@gmail.com for • Evaluate when this procedure should be done
more info.
• 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

Ontario Academy of General Dentistry (Approval #219289)
Academy of General Dentistry Approved PACE Program Provider. FAGD/
MAGD Credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial
38 board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. 01/01/2012 - 12/31/2025