Tongue-Tied Academy
Richard Baxter, DMD, MS, FAAPD
The definitive system for understanding, diagnosing, and treating tethered oral tissues from infancy through adolescence.
This is the most comprehensive tongue-tie training available online, created by the pediatric dentist who set the standard for this work. He literally wrote the book.
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Dr. Richard Baxter, DMD, MS
Dr. Richard Baxter is one of the most trusted authorities in tongue-tie education. As a pediatric dentist, author, and international educator, he has defined how clinicians understand tethered oral tissues with greater precision, confidence, and clinical depth.
His course brings the full picture into focus: functional diagnosis, clinical decision-making, age-specific treatment planning, and immediate real-world implementation.
This is not just a course collection. This is the benchmark.
This Is the Starting Point
The restriction changes function.
The function changes development.
The earlier you recognize the pattern, the more clearly treatment comes into focus.
Dr. Baxter’s course delivers the full clinical picture of tethered oral tissues from birth through age 18, with exceptional depth in the pediatric years and rare practical guidance for the often-overlooked 6-month to 4-year-old age group.
Through expertly structured lessons, literature review, and live-patient demonstrations, clinicians gain a clear framework for understanding what they are seeing, why it matters, and how to treat it successfully.
Uncertainty becomes confidence..
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The Course That Sets the Standard
Defined by depth, structure, and clinical authority.
• The most comprehensive training available
A complete system for understanding, diagnosing, and treating tethered oral tissues at a high level.
• Exceptional depth from birth to age 18
This course is especially strong in the pediatric years, giving providers a complete framework for infant, child, and adolescent care.
• Rare expertise in the 6-month to 4-year-old age group
Dr. Baxter teaches one of the most valuable and underserved areas in clinical practice with excellence and precision.
• Created by a pediatric dentist
This is the only course of its kind built by a pediatric dentist, making it especially relevant for all dental specialties, physicians, and therapists.
• Immediate clinical use
Bite-sized lessons make it easy to learn, revisit, and apply immediately in practice.
• Backed by extraordinary clinician response
Providers describe it as the best overview course they have taken, the course that gave them confidence to implement treatment, and the one every pediatric dentist should take.
• Recognized at the highest level
Ranked among the top 10 courses on Thinkific, one of the world’s leading online learning platforms.
• Mission-driven at its core
One hundred percent of proceeds support charitable initiatives including clean water initiatives, health centers, anti-human trafficking efforts, and orphan care.
If you take one course to implement tongue-tie treatment at the highest level, there is no alternative.
Tongue-Tied: How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding, and More
By Richard Baxter, DMD, MS, with contributions from Megan Musso, MA, CCC-SLP, Lauren Hughes, MS, CCC-SLP, Lisa Lahey, RN, IBCLC, Paula Fabbie, RDH, BS, COM, Marty Lovvorn, DC, and Michelle Emanuel, OTR/L, NBCR, CST. Foreword by Rajeev Agarwal, MD, FAAP.
Dr. Richard Baxter’s book distills the science, clinical insight, and treatment perspective that have made him one of the most trusted voices in tethered oral tissues.
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