Introducing The Peel Technique ® - A New Paradigm in Pediatric Tongue Tie Treatment
Date: Saturday, January 24, 2026
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Delivery: In-Person Lecture & Hands-On
Speaker: Robert Convissar, DDS, FAGD
Location: Washington AGD Global Learning Center, 19415 International Blvd, 410, SeaTac, WA
Subject Codes: Pedodontics (373)
Credit Hours: 8.0
Course Format: Lecture & Hands-on
Tuition: Lecture & Hands-On
AGD Member Dentists: $495.00
Non-AGD Member Dentists: $795.00
UWSOD AGD Dental Student Member (D1-D4): $99.00
Medical Doctors, Nurses, Chiropractors, Medical Staff: $795.00
Included with Tuition:
A light breakfast, lunch, parking, and all hands-on materials are provided for attendees.
Course Description
In this combination lecture and hands-on course, attendees will be introduced to the concept of laser frenectomies, an increasingly popular method by which dentists and physicians can treat tongue and lip ties in their patients.
5% or more of the babies born in the United States have such tight tongue-ties and frenum pulls that they cannot successfully latch onto their mother’s nipple and breastfeed. For the baby, serious consequences include loss of weight and the label of “failure to thrive”. For the mother, this results in sore and cracked nipples, mastitis, painful engorgement and post-partum depression due to an inability to nurse her baby. This has classically been treated by a physician taking a scalpel or a pair of scissors to the newborn’s mouth and cutting the attachment. The treatment of choice, however, is for a dentist to use laser technology to painlessly, bloodlessly remove the attachment, allowing the infant to immediately nurse.
Though many practitioners perform tongue-tie release, few are trained in the PEEL Technique ®. This technique ensures that the 4 movements the tongue must make in order to nurse successfully can be performed:
Peristalsis
Elevation
Extension
Lateralization
This participation course will teach the medical and dental team how to:
*Accumulate all the required data via history intake forms
*Perform a clinical examination to arrive at the correct diagnosis
*Evaluate when this procedure should be done
*Perform the procedure using laser technology
*Network with lactation consultants, pediatricians, neonatologists, and the rest of the medical team
*Grow your neonatal dentistry practice
This course is recommended for: General dentists, periodontists, oral surgeons, and pediatric dentists, Pediatricians, family practitioners, neonatologists, obstetricians, pediatric otolaryngologists, pediatric gastroenterologists, and more
Chiropractors
Nurse practitioners
Speech and language pathologists, lactation consultants, doulas and birth counselors
The HANDS-ON portion of the program will be performed on tissue samples and pig jaws and includes complete instruction on performing lip and tongue tie releases. Each attendee of the course will perform releases on animal jaws.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, participants will:
*Be able to diagnose anterior and posterior tongue ties
*Understand the criteria for treating tongue and lip ties
*Know the advantages of the PEEL Technique ® over other techniques
*Understand which laser wavelengths are most appropriate for performing tongue and lip tie releases
Meet Your Speaker: Robert Convissar, DDS, FAGD
Dr. Convissar is a pioneer in the field of laser dentistry. One of the first dentists in the world to incorporate lasers into general practice, he has close to 4 decades of experience with CO2, Diode, Erbium, Nd. YAG and PBM wavelengths.
He has authored over twenty peer-reviewed papers and 7 laser textbooks. An international lecturer from New York to London to Sydney to Tokyo to Dubai to Bahrain to Saudi Arabia and everywhere in between, he has delivered close to 400 Laser Certification and Laser Tongue Tie Certification courses worldwide. He practices laser-assisted dentistry in New York City. He is the only dentist in the world to have the triad of awards:
Diplomate of the American Board of Laser Surgery
Fellow of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery
Master of the Academy of Laser Dentistry
Fellow of the Academy of General Dentistry
His seminal textbook Principles and Practice of Laser Dentistry, now in its 3rd edition, has been the standard textbook on laser dentistry for over a decade – translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, and Polish, with more translations pending. He is the co-author of Color Atlas of Tongue Tie and Lip Tie Laser Frenectomy – the first textbook in the world on the subject. He practices laser dentistry in New York City, where he also serves as Director of Laser Dentistry at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Queens. He is the only dentist from the USA on the faculty of the world-famous Master’s Degree Program in Laser Dentistry at the University of Genoa (Italy).
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