Growing issues with tethered oral tissues: an embryological perspective

The mouth is the gateway to our body. We all start as embryo’s and learn to use our mouth for so many different things throughout our lives. As a baby we use our mouth to feed, we learn to eat with it as a toddler, to speak as a toddler, to laugh as a child, to impress as a teenager and then we use it for the rest of our lives as an adult. Different ages therefore have different types of problems. In this lecture will be explained how growing issues can be explained trough Tethered Oral Tissues (TOT’s).

In 2007 Kirsten Slagter graduated as a dentist at the University of Groningen (cum laude). After graduation she became a scientific researcher at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery departement of the University Medical Centre Groningen and finished her PhD in 2016.