Airway Centric Pediatric Health Care: Optimal Anatomy and Tongue Ties (Part 1)

About this Seminar

Optimized craniofacial growth and respiratory function depends on proper tongue function. Tongue ties or low tongue posture that impedes normal growth and function can give rise to sub-optimal growth, palatal collapse, mouth breathing with sleep disordered breathing/OSA, and associated behavioral challenges. Current research from Dr. Sigal’s airway focused practice will be presented with short and long term outcomes that demonstrate the impact of airway centric health care. Breathe, Sleep, Live, Better.

1. Identify essential components of head/neck anatomy for optimized growth & function


2. Identify signs and symptoms of a tongue tie in pediatrics


3. Explain how Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy, breathing re-education & functional scissor frenotomy care can help

Presenters

About Dr. Alison Sigal

B.H. Kin., DDS, MSc (Ped Dent), FRCDC

Dr. Alison Sigal graduated from McMaster University with an Honours degree in Kinesiology before attending the University of Toronto, Faculty of Dentistry where she earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree. She completed a hospital-based residency at Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto) before completing her Masters of Science Degree with specialty training in Pediatric Dentistry. She is a fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada and currently a certified specialist in pediatric dentistry.

Dr. Sigal established Little Bird Pediatric Dentistry in Milton, Ontario to provide comprehensive airway centric health care to children from birth onwards. She has dedicated her practice to the provision of this care, creating novel compromised airway assessment tools, surgical techniques for tongue and lip ties, and myofunctional protocols including Buteyko breathing for best patient outcomes and long-term retention.

Dr. Sigal developed her clinic’s medical record software, that features the largest on-going airway centric patient database globally to date with continual research integration, treatment evaluation, and evolution.

Her career goal is for the provision of airway centric pediatric assessment and treatment to become standardized with universal protocols; assisting the evolution of pediatric anatomy textbooks, academic curriculums, and hospital/health care models.

Dr. Sigal has been an invited speaker internationally, at many multi-disciplinary conferences, meetings, and symposiums, and is regarded as one of the leaders in pediatric airway centric health care.