Lip And Tongue Tie Laser Surgery

Laser surgery removes excess tissue in the mouth for infants children teens or adults.

Lip and tongue tie laser surgery.

Siegel is a board certified oral maxillofacial surgeon in new york city and long island. We ll ask you to be in the. 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. Lip tie has not been studied as much as tongue tie but treatments for lip ties and tongue ties are very similar.

The laser cauterizes as it cuts to reduce pain bleeding and recovery time. Rubin and sentelle can alleviate problems caused by tongue tie and lip tie by performing a laser frenectomy. Tongue tie revision or removal is a procedure of releasing a thin piece of skin the frenum under the tongue and or upper lip to allow for better range of motion. If necessary tongue tie can be treated with a surgical cut to release the frenulum frenotomy.

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. Tongue tie with lip tie can make breastfeeding difficult for babies and in some. Most of the time however the term refers to an oral procedure meant to resolve a tongue tie or a lip tie.

In your mouth the frenum refers to a piece of soft tissue connected to the lips. 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. 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 is a condition in which an unusually short thick or tight band of tissue lingual frenulum tethers the bottom of the tongue s tip to the floor of the mouth.

He is a pioneer of laser tongue tie and lip tie surgery. 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. For your safety you won t be able to stay in the room during tongue tie surgery.