6.5 CPD Hours

Our Advanced Course - Infants & Toddlers covers all elements of running a tongue tie clinic.

Following the advanced course, dental teams will be equipped with ample knowledge of the protocols, procedures and equipment to perform tongue tie surgery and to ensure high quality treatment and patient care.

Participants will learn:

  • Management of tongue and lip ties in infants & toddlers

  • Advanced diagnosis related to infant tongue and lip ties

  • How to perform a thorough oral restriction consultation

  • The importance of an interdisciplinary approach

  • How to work with a lactation consultant

  • How to work with body workers (eg chiropractors/osteopaths)

  • Record taking, questionnaires and consent forms

  • In-depth, tried and tested protocols to use in your practice

  • Practice management considerations

  • Scope of practice, compliance with regulations

  • Practice integration and patient care


Completion of the Foundation Course is an essential prerequisite for participation in the Advanced Course.

The Advanced Course includes the provision of a comprehensive resources, including an extensive workbook containing the compiled wisdom of decades of clinical experience and the treatment of many thousands of patients. 

All pricing is in US dollars.

Course Price: US$1250 for 30 days access.

Special rates are available for midwives and lactation consultants. Please email us with proof of your professional registration to access a US$1000 discount on this Advanced Course.

Course Outline

  • 1

    Welcome to the Advanced - Infants & Toddlers Course

    • How to use this course

    • A message from the Tongue Tie Institute

    • TTI Advanced - Infants & Toddlers Course Text Book

    • Introduction & Foundation Course Review
  • 2

    A Comprehensive Approach

    • Comprehensive Approach to Treatment

    • Signs & Symptoms Part 1

    • Signs & Symptoms Part 2

    • Signs & Symptoms Part 3
  • 3

    Consultation & Treatment

    • The Consultation

    • Surgery & Active Wound Management

    • Managing Challenges - Part 1

    • Managing Challenges - Part 2

    • Managing Challenges - Part 3
  • 4

    Practice Integration

    • How to Implement in your Practice

    • Forms & Protocols for treating infants

    • Forms & Protocols for treating toddlers
  • 5

    Next steps

    • Thank you from the Tongue Tie Institute

    • Before you go...

Instructors

Director

Marjan Jones

Dr Jones began treating tongue ties in adults and older children with laser surgery in the late 1990s. Her introduction to infants came later in 2012, when at the insistence of a desperate breastfeeding mother she performed her first infant frenectomy, thereby saving the first of many breastfeeding relationships. The experience she has gained and the protocols she and her team have developed after treating several thousand infants form a key part of the education programs of the TTI. Her protocol is based on the vital importance of treatment being focused on the patient, dyad and family rather than merely an isolated organ or segment of the mouth. As such the approach has ensured optimum outcomes in the form of gains in competencies for oral function across the life-span.

Instructor

Dan Hanson

Dr Hanson ceased general dental practice in 2011 when his involvement in TMJ treatments and early interceptive orthodontics became a great passion. Having suffered from severe breathing dysfunction and TMJ dysfunction for many years (prior to treatment), Dr Dan knows firsthand the great benefits of preventative healthcare. He has lectured internationally on the subjects of breathing dysfunction and soft tissue dysfunction since 2011, mostly while teaching dentists about the Myobrace System, and breathing dysfunction. He has added his extensive knowledge of soft tissue and breathing dysfunction to some of the already established protocols, and in particular has assisted with the creation of protocols for “Pre-habilitation” and “Re-habiliation” for children and adults. He is a qualified Buteyko Breathing educator registered with the BIBH.

See what others say about TTI Courses

Essential to being a good practitioner

Foundation & Advanced Course Participant, November 2016

This is a great course and I think essential to being a good practitioner. The knock on dental, facial and whole body implications are huge. Marjan and Dan are wonderful speakers - Extremely knowledgeable, great delivery of info and so very relevant and practical. An enlightening and practice-altering course.

Comprehensive management of the mother and child

Foundation & Advanced Course Participant, November 2016

The process that has been developed really is a comprehensive management of the mother and child, and not a cookie cutter sausage factory frenectomy college. This really impressed me, and the potential benefits from releasing ties for long term facial development are logical and sound.

This course opened my eyes!

Advanced Course Participant, June 2016

The course opened my eyes to a multi-disciplinary approach to new born treatment and a new gold standard in tongue release diagnosis.

Didn't know where to start

Foundation Course Participant, June 2016

Thank you. I didn't know where to start my journey in helping others through comprehensive diagnosis of treatment, but this was the perfect place.

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