American Laser Study Club to Meet Online in February

The Fourth Annual Symposium of the American Laser Study Club (ALSC) will take place online throughout the month of February 2021. Presentation formats will include on-demand lectures and live round-table panel Q&A discussions with a variety of speakers.

In recognition of the ALSC’s Third Annual Symposium last year, the “Breathe and Thrive” theme will continue as this year’s meeting will continue to focus on the growing awareness of airway disorders and their treatments, though other topics related to laser medicine will be presented as well.

Presentations related to Tots & Lasers will include:

• Richard Baxter, DMD, MS: “The Impact of Tongue-Tie Education on Families and Providers”
• Soroush Zaghi, MD: “The Breathe Outlook: Fueling the future with the best in airway and tongue-tie research”
• Ann Bynum DDS; and Autumn Henning, SLP, COM, IBCLC:  “Plot the TOT: Detour Ahead!”
• Lauren Ballinger, DDS: “The Pediatric Dentist’s Role in Prevention: the prevention of caries starts at the eruption of the 1st tooth; the prevention of malocclusion starts at birth”
• Chelsea Pinto, DDS; Anna Gross, SLP; Julie Matheney, SLP, IBCLC; and Sara Mangano, SLP, CST: “Modern healthcare as a collective experience: How clear and supportive communication between providers and parents can optimize treatment outcomes.”
• Cara Riek, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, IBCLC: “Learning to Breathe, Breathing to Thrive”
• Justin Roche, MB ChB, MRCPCH, IBCLC: “How young can you do a frenuloplasty? Frenuloplasty under conscious sedation in pre-school children”
• Milton Geivelis, DDS; and Kelly Wells, DC: “The Integrative Functional Frenuloplasty: Incorporating Craniopathy, Myofascial Release and Chiropractic”
• Diana Batoon, DMD: “Airway, Breathing and Sleep: Collaborative Treatment That Every Healthcare Provider Should Know”
• Maribel Santos-Cordero, DMD: “Keep Your Tongue Up! The effects of abnormal tongue posture on children’s orofacial development”
• James Thomas, DDS: “HLC 2.0 – The evolution to find “true collaboration” within the health:latch circle”
• Piya Trehan Gandhi, DDS: “Shepherding children to live their best lives: a multidisciplinary approach to tethered oral tissues.”
• Molly Gunsaulis, DDS: “Tongue-Tie, my missing link. Connecting the dots to the most rewarding moments in my dental career”
• Kirk Kollmann, DMD: “Tips and Tricks I’ve Learned Through the Years”
• Brynn Leroux, DDS: “Function, Form, Facial Growth, and Development. Role of TOTS Laser Release”
• Tara Erson, DMD, CLC: “Stories from the Trenches: Cases and Contemplations”
• Samira Jafari, DMD: “Does the tool matter? Comparing surgical technique and healing post functional frenuloplasty completed using LightScalpel CO₂laser vs scissors”
• Natasha Khurana, DDS, IBCLC; Sarah Early, RN, IBCLC; Natalia Barszcz, DC; Seth Spencer, DC; Leslie Bergmann, PT, CST; Emily Griffin, MSW, LICSW, LCSW-C; and Brittany DeFrehn, CD: “The Importance of an Integrated Multi-Disciplinary Approach for the Mother and Infant Dyad”
• Robyn Merkel-Walsh, MA, CCC-SLP/COM; Lori L. Overland, MS, CCC-SLP, C/NDT, CLC, FOM; and Scott A. Siegel, MD, DDS: “TOTS and the Terrible Twos: A Collaborative Model for Frenectomy with Toddlers”
• Lisa Lahey, RN, IBCLC, CSOM: “Resistance, Resilience, and Recovery: The 3 stages seen in Post Frenectomy Aftercare”
• Patricia Berg, RLC, IBCLC, CST-D: “The Role of the Craniosacral Therapist on the Ankyloglossia Team”
• Ken Hooks, RRT, RPSGT: “Facial Pharyngeal Freeway”
• Melissa Mugno, OMT: “A deeper dive into the implementation of Myofunctional Therapy in a dental office”
• Kimberly Benkert, RDH, BSDH, MPH, COM, FAADH: “Lift the Lip and Look Under the Tongue – Assessing for TOTs is an Essential One! Collaborative International TOTs Campaign Across the Professions”
• Leyli Norouz-Knutsen; Sarah Hornsby, RDH; and Chad Knutsen: “TBI’s Credo: Inspiring a culture of knowledge sharing, and community building for collaborative success”
• Martin Kaplan, DMD: “How We Can help educate our SLPs and IBCLCs et. al. to Understand what we Do: case studies and understanding what Laser Beams do that the Diode Cautery Can Not”

Presentations related to laser dentistry, surgery, and medicine will include:

• Robert Strauss, MD, DDS: “Laser Physics for Poets: how the good practitioner uses basic principles for the best clinical laser results”
• Martin Kaplan, DMD: “How We Can help educate our SLPs and IBCLCs et. al. to Understand what we Do: case studies and understanding what Laser Beams do that the Diode Cautery Can Not”
• James Thomas, DDS: “Impactful laser frenectomy case presentations using technologies from our everyday lives”
• Noel Berger, DVM, MS: “Surgical CO₂laser power: More or Less?”
• Samira Jafari, DMD: “Does the tool matter? Comparing surgical technique and healing post functional frenuloplasty completed using LightScalpel CO₂laser vs scissors”
• Peter Vitruk, PhD: “Laser Beam Incision/Coagulation Depth Controls vs. Laser Diode Cautery Tips”

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