Learn in your own time with us online with 12 months access to lectures, videos and clinical resources.....

Starting from pregnancy, you'll learn the very early impacts on oral development and how you can help shape your patient's oral health before they are even born...

Learn how to examine an infant from 4 months old, the various oral milestones and stages of development right up until age 4, the end of early childhood.

We'll show you how to identify and what to do about issues such as tongue and lip tie, pacifier and thumb habits, early decay and dental trauma, and much more!

All course participants have access to the course starting on the 12th of March and can learn in their own time with 12 months access to the course.

Join our private Facebook group to ask questions and interact with the lecturers!

Online Learning in your own time

Learn in your own time before the face-to-face part of the course. In our online portal, you'll learn more about baby oral health from the womb to birth to early infancy.

Location: Recorded lectures online

Educator: Bridget Ingle

Topics:

Pregnancy and in the Womb

• Introduction to Pregnancy and Oral Health
• Fetal Craniofacial Development
• Pregnancy and Oral Health
• Oral Care Protocol for the Pregnancy Patient

The Young Baby

• The Baby Skull
• Oral Anatomy and Physiology of a infant 0-6 weeks
• Birth and Craniofacial Impacts
• Feeding and Sucking
• Variations in Oral Anatomy
• Oral Development Milestones in the Young Baby

Learn all about the important oral milestones and influences on the growth and development of babies mouths and the dental care you can provide.

Location: Online lectures, videos and material

Educators: Dr Helen Fung & Carla Lejarraga

Tongue and Lip Ties presented by Dr Helen Fung

• What is Tongue Tie
• Tongue and Lip Ties in infancy
• Tongue and lip tie assessment tools
• Surgical options for tongue and lip tie
• How to identify and refer for tongue and lip tie

Non-Nutritive Sucking in 0-4 years by Carla Lejarraga

• Sucking in infants
• Sucking in 2- 4 years
• Understanding guidelines and recommendations on Bottles and Pacifiers

And additional topics

• Oral and Dental Impact on Airways and Breathing in 0-4 years
• Dental Trauma
• Restorating the dentition in 0-4 Year olds
• Caring for the Toddler and Preschooler
• Caring for the Toddler and Preschooler

Later in 2022 we will offer the option of you continuing your learning with our hands-on workshops at Dr Helen's Pediatric Specialist practice, Tooth Town, in Cooparoo.

Here, you'll have the chance to put your skills to the test in the dental chair with our educators helping you along the way in a relaxed environment with your fellow delegates.

NOTE: attendance to this is not compulsory and is at an additional cost $$

9am - Early Childhood Dental Trauma

Early Childhood Caries: case studies and workshop

10.30am MORNING TEA

11am - Workshops

Tongue Ties : case studies and workshops

Live patient observation

12.30PM LUNCH

1.30 - Workshops

Airways: case studies and screening workshop

Teats, bottles and dummies workshop

3PM - AFTERNOON TEA AND WRAP UP

Refund and cancellations:

A full refund will be issued for cancellations up to 30 days prior to the event.

Cancellations within 2 weeks of the event will incur a $300 fee.

Cancellations within 7 days notice of the event will incur a 50% cancellation fee.

Cancellations within 48 hours are non-refundable.

Meet Your Educators

Dr Helen Fung, BDS, DClinDent (Paed Dent), MRACDS (Paed Dent)

Dr Helen graduated with her Doctorate of Clinical Dentistry (Paediatric Dentistry) in 2010. She was appointed first as a Senior Registrar and later, Staff Specialist at the Westmead Centre for Oral Health, as well as Visiting Staff Specialist for the Hunter New England Oral Health Service. She has also volunteered her dental expertise to children in orphanages in Vietnam, as well as with the indigenous populations in the Northern Territory.

Following the birth of her first child in 2014, Dr Helen decided to move up to Brisbane with her family. Currently, along with running Tooth Town, she is also working part time as a Staff Specialist at the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital. In addition, she is involved in the teaching of dental and oral health students and lecturing to medical and dental professionals. Her special interests include dental trauma, dental anomalies, minor oral surgery, and tongue ties.

Becoming a mum has changed my clinical approach and made me a much better paediatric dentist. One of my mentors always said that you aren’t really a paediatric dentist until you’ve had your own kids. Before I had my children, dentistry was so black and white. I knew exactly what to tell parents who struggled to brush their children’s teeth. I knew exactly what to say about breastfeeding cessation, healthy snack options, and how I would fix cavities that undoubtedly would be diagnosed. I had textbook answers to every question.

Since becoming a mum, having struggled to not fall asleep whilst breastfeeding in the middle of the night, battled the toddler when brushing and flossing her teeth, even released my own newborn baby’s tongue tie, I have found myself looking for better alternatives or other ways to manage each individual challenge in a more practical and achievable approach. I think we, as dentists, and subsequently as parents, discover that the dental challenges of our own children teach us valuable lessons and force us to learn and grow as practitioners.

Bridget Ingle RN RM IBCLC OMT

Bridget works in private practice in Brisbane Australia as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) which incorporates her other specialty work as a paediatric orofacial myofunctional therapy practitioner.

Bridget has a background in paediatric nursing and midwifery which commenced her passion for work with mothers and infants. Her experiences breastfeeding her first child helped her understand the practical side and the importance of being able to teach other mothers about breastfeeding. She gained her formal certification as an IBCLC in 1992 and has worked continually in the field of breastfeeding, lactation support and education since then to be regarded as one of Australia’s most clinically experienced IBCLCs. Bridget has always had a thirst to learn more from furthering education and clinical practice and has developed a love of helping with complex situations of both mother and baby. As a way to follow on care after infancy, Bridget completed training in orofacial myology and now has a paediatric Myofunctional therapy practice also. Bridget’s 30 years of diverse experience facilitates a complete problem solving approach when dealing with complex maternal, infant and young child feeding and oral function issues.

Bridget is co-founder of The Australasian Society for Tongue and Lip Ties (ASTLIT) and currently holds the position as Chair of Board. She has also completed additional training in Buteyko breathing practitioner training, advanced infant and child feeding, SOS Approach to feeding, Tummy Time Method® and presents regularly at national and international conferences.

In her not-so spare time, Bridget supervises two online support groups of special interests and is a wife, mother of three adult children and a long distance runner to try to get some balance in her life!

Carla Lejarraga

B App Health Sc (Oral Health), OMT

Carla Lejarraga is Australia’s leading expert in thumb and finger sucking habits of children.

As a Dental Hygienist, she was led by her own daughter’s plight to stop sucking her thumb.

With her subsequent pioneering work and research in the area of digit sucking habits, Carla opened the first clinic of its kind - The Thumb Sucking Clinic - in 2011. The private clinic located in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.

Carla's passion is helping children grow up healthy right from the start and believes it all starts with education from health care providers.

Carla holds a Bachelor Applied Health Science (Oral Health) from the University of Qld, is a member of the Dental Hygienist Association Australia and is an awarded Life Member the Australia Association of Orofacial Myology for her work in the field.

Her ground-breaking research on non-orthodontic intervention in oral habits was published in The International Journal of Dentistry in 2015.

Carla has taught Orofacial Myology practice to dental and speech professionals with The Australian Academy of Orofacial Myology for over a decade.

Carla lectures nationally and internationally regarding her work and has been featured in various newspapers, magazines, and on ABC radio.