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TOTs 5-Step Screening Tool shown in use with a child receiving an oral screening, featuring a professional in the corner.

TOTs 5-Step Screening Tool shown in use with a child receiving an oral screening, featuring a professional in the corner.

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TOTs 5-Step Screening Tool

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The TOTs 5-step screening tool is the centerpiece of this TalkTools self-study course taught by Robyn Merkel-Walsh, MA, CCC-SLP, COM. Tethered oral tissue, or TOTs, describes an abnormality in one or more of the seven frena in the oral cavity, including the maxillary buccal, mandibular buccal, maxillary labial, mandibular labial, and ling...

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