Chapter Chat: The Mystique of the Frenulum: Cutting through the Confusion
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Join us on a Chapter Chat discussion on Tuesday, October 20 @5:30-7:00PM with David L. Rothman, DDS and the AAP-CA1! Airways and infant feeding difficulties have taken center stage in the dental network. This course looks at the current controversy about the effects of a tethered tongue in the newborn and discusses the evidence based literature for the pros and cons. We will look at the grading systems, the function of the tongue and the frenulum and alternative therapies to surgical release.
Meet Our Speakers
David L. Rothman, DDS
David Rothman is a Board Certified Pediatric Dentist in private practice in San Francisco and Associate Clinical Professor at Case Western Reserve University. He completed residencies in General Practice at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, Anesthesia at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Pediatric Dentistry at Children’s Hospital Oakland and UCSF. He was Program Director of the Pediatric Dental Residency Program at UCSF before becoming Chair of Pediatric Dentistry at the University of the Pacific. He has been President of the College of Diplomates of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry the California Society of Pediatric Dentistry and the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology. He is a member of OKU, a Fellow of Pierre Fauchard Academy, ICD and ACD as well as a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. He lectures and publishes nationally and internationally on pediatric dentistry, safety, anesthesia and sedation. In his spare time he kayaks, sails, hikes and skis.