Introduction

Join us in Clearwater Beach, FL, from January 31 to February 2 for the 2025 Breathe and Thrive Symposium. The 2025 Symposium is an excellent opportunity to further your knowledge in Tethered Oral Tissues (TOTS), laser surgery, frenectomy/frenuloplasty techniques and tips, multidisciplinary team building, studies, technologies, innovations, and laser science and safety education. With many multidisciplinary lectures and hands-on laser sessions, you will have the chance to learn from leading experts in the field and network with fellow clinicians focused on airway and tongue-tie.

Hands-On Laser Labs

This will be an excellent opportunity for clinicians to try out soft tissue surgical lasers firsthand and simulate the variety of soft tissue procedures on tissue samples—at no additional cost for Symposium attendees. Non-doctors can attend a wet lab, but only as observers.

• Frenectomy simulations on pig-jaw cadavers
• Incisional, excisional, ablative, and coagulative application simulations
• Incision and coagulation depth control simulations
• Non-ablative oral tissue laser remodeling simulations
• Presets and considerations for different tissue types

Symposium Attendees will be provided with the opportunity to obtain Laser Safety Basic Knowledge Certificates from the LIA (at a discounted rate for ALSC members) and Laser Dental Surgery Basic Knowledge Certificates from the ALSC (complimentary upon completing an online quiz).