Lip And Tongue Tie Laser Surgery

In your mouth the frenum refers to a piece of soft tissue connected to the lips.

Lip and tongue tie laser surgery.

We have to follow laser safety guidelines however you can feel peace of mind knowing that the tongue tie procedure typically only takes 1 to 2 minutes. Siegel is a board certified oral maxillofacial surgeon in new york city and long island. Utilizing a soft tissue laser drs. Simply put a laser release is the use of an all tissue hand held laser to detach the frenum connective tissue webbing from the upper lip or tongue by a trained dentist.

The laser cauterizes as it cuts to reduce pain bleeding and recovery time. For your safety you won t be able to stay in the room during tongue tie surgery. We ll ask you to be in the. Laser surgery removes excess tissue in the mouth for infants children teens or adults.

Tongue tie with lip tie can make breastfeeding difficult for babies and in some. Richard baxter dmd ms uses his lightscalpel co2 laser to perform a tongue and lip tie release frenectomy on a 3 week old infant. Tongue tie ankyloglossia occurs when the band of tissue frenulum that connects the tongue to the floor of the mouth is abnormally short tight or thick. The benefits of tongue tie and lip tie laser surgery can positively affect your child s health including increasing the ability to successfully breastfeed as well as prevent possible dental problems associated with these anomalies.

If necessary tongue tie can be treated with a surgical cut to release the frenulum frenotomy. Lip tie has not been studied as much as tongue tie but treatments for lip ties and tongue ties are very similar. He is a pioneer of laser tongue tie and lip tie surgery. Most of the time however the term refers to an oral procedure meant to resolve a tongue tie or a lip tie.

Tongue tie and lip tie laser surgery we are a lincense and certified dentist specialized in laser tongue tie and lip tie removal know as laser frenectomy. Rubin and sentelle can alleviate problems caused by tongue tie and lip tie by performing a laser frenectomy. A frenectomy is a common surgical procedure during which the frenulum the band of tissue involved in tongue tie and or lip tie is released allowing for better range of motion.