{"id":230,"date":"2017-12-12T09:50:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/?page_id=230"},"modified":"2018-02-14T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T19:10:45","slug":"lip-and-tongue-tie-release","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/lip-and-tongue-tie-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Lip and Tongue Tie Release"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The medical and dental communities are becoming increasingly more aware of the speech and feeding difficulties associated with tongue and lip ties in infants and children.\u00a0 Dr. Robinson has been providing laser frenectomies (lip and tongue tie release) for patients below one year of age in-office with great results. Based on age and cooperation level, patients over the age of two years old are also candidates for the procedure either in the office or under general anesthesia.<\/p>\n
We are pleased that so many physicians, lactation consultants, speech-language pathologists, and occupational therapists in our area have been receptive to the emerging research and have chosen Lake Area Pediatric Dental Specialists to remove this barrier to successful speech and feeding through frenectomy.\u00a0 We love seeing these families and hearing the success stories![\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”239″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In order to better serve our patients and allow for a more successful release, these are some guidelines that we have set in place:<\/strong><\/p>\n Please visit these websites for more about lip and tongue tie, aftercare, and additional suck training to improve procedure success.<\/strong><\/p>\n WHAT IS LASER SURGERY AND HOW DOES IT WORK?<\/strong> The CO2 laser has the unique ability to vaporize or \u2018erase\u2019 tissue. The CO2 laser can be used to make incisions, as well as to remove unhealthy tissue. Our laser is so precise that it can selectively remove only a few cells at a time, if needed. At the same time, it is powerful enough to de-bulk the largest of tumors.<\/p>\n ARE LIGHTSCALPEL LASER PROCEDURES SAFE?<\/strong> [vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]The medical and dental communities are becoming increasingly more aware of the speech and feeding difficulties associated with tongue and lip ties in infants and children.\u00a0 Dr. Robinson has been providing laser frenectomies (lip and tongue tie release) for patients below one year of age in-office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/230\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeareapds.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nTraditional surgery with a scalpel or scissors can bruise or crush tissue. When we use the LightScalpel CO2 laser, only an intense beam of laser light interacts with the tissue. There is no mechanical trauma to the tissue and the coagulation zone is very narrow (as little as 50 microns \u2013 almost the width of a human hair).<\/p>\n
\nWhen used according to accepted guidelines by a trained practitioner, the laser is as safe as other instruments. You will wear special protective glasses, just as you would to protect your eyes from sun exposure.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”251″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Learn More About: LIGHTSCALPEL CO2 LASER” color=”orange” size=”lg” align=”center” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lightscalpel.com%2Fpatient-laser-surgery%2F||target:%20_blank|”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"