November 29-30, 2024

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Comprehensive Two-Day Course

DAY ONE

• Registration and welcome
• Introductions of instructors, sponsors and attendees
• Why are we here?
  • History of TOTS, developmental embryology, anatomy
  • Why does this matter, airway, growth and development
  • TOTS thru the ages ie infant to adult
• Diagnostic protocols
  • History(s) *infant and parent(mom) *child and parent
  • Examinations intra-oral and extra-oral
  • Radiography indications and specifics
  • Photography and videography
  • Referral review and contact
• Treatment planning
  • The diagnostics have led to this what now
  • Tools to treat; conventional “cold steel” or Lasers
  • Relevant Laser Physics
  • Different Lasers explored
  • Intra operative considerations and management
  • Post operative considerations and management
    
    

DAY TWO

• Laser parameters and protocols
  • Armamentarium and protocols for infants
  • Armamentarium and protocols for toddlers
  • Armamentarium and protocols for adolescents and beyond
• Myofunctional considerations
  • Myofunctional basics pre and post op
  • Tongue strengthening
  • Lip seal development
• Surgical procedures and protocols
  • Labial specifics and cases
  • Lingual specifics  and cases
• Post care and followup
  • myofunctional exercises
  • follow-up appointment and documentation
  • follow-up with referral sources
• Implementation in your everyday practice
  • training team and buy-in
  • communication with potential referral sources
  • screen and treatment plan