Ireland

Justin is a Consultant Paediatrician and IBCLC with over two decades of experience in the field of tongue tie. He has worked as a consultant in hospital and community paediatric settings and together with Kate he founded the National Tongue tie Centre in Ireland of which he is the Medical Director. At the National Tongue Tie Centre the team provides multidisciplinary care to infants, children and adults. They have developed a pathway of care to bring Functional Frenuloplasty to infants and children from 3 months of age. Having historically used scissors, then diode laser, he has spent years refining his CO2 laser skills to advance surgical technique to work with the tissue planes for selective fascial release. Justin has completed extensive post-graduate training in tongue tie, lectures internationally on the topic and has produced courses to share this knowledge.

Ireland

Kate is the Clinical Director at the National Tongue Tie Centre in Ireland and leads a team of Therapists and Lactation Consultants to provide the highest quality of rehabilitative care to infants, children and adults with oral dysfunctions. She is a Chartered Physiotherapist, IBCLC and Paediatric Feeding Therapist. Having trained at the University of Liverpool, she worked in both Leeds and Southampton, where she led and delivered the regional neonatal service for pre-term and high-risk infants, before moving to Ireland. She is a member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and registered with CORU. Kate has travelled overseas many times over the years to complete further training in Feeding Therapy, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy, and now lectures internationally.

Norway

Tine Greve has been a midwife since 1991, IBCLC since 2000 and she has a bachelor in Traditional Chinese Medicine in Acupuncture from 2014. She has a focus on helping mothers preparing for physiologic birth and breastfeeding. She has previously been working in an Alternative Birth Care Centre in Oslo for many years.

She is currently working with counselling breastfeeding women in a multidisciplinary health care centre for mothers and babies where she has specialized in breastfeeding difficulties due to tongue-ties and motoric challenges. She is also a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor for “Ammehjelpen”, the Norwegian Mother-to-Mother support group for breastfeeding counselling (resembling La Leche League).

She has for many years been teaching in educational programs for midwives, NICU-nurses, nurse-assistants, health care visitors etc. on a national level in Norway.

Tine Greve is an experienced speaker at international conferences such as ICM, Midwifery Today, ICAP Professionals, Nordic Midwifery conferences, Nordic Breastfeeding conferences, ILCA/VELB etc. She has been teaching and have had workshops in USA, Canada, Egypt, Ghana, Australia, Russia, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Slovenia, Romania, Austria, Belgium and France.

Poland

Anna Lichnowska holds a Master’s degree in English Philology. In 2012, she completed her studies in general speech therapy and neurolinguistics, followed by additional coursework in sensory integration and educational management. In 2021, she earned her Doctorate in Health Sciences, specializing in Public Health, with a focus on ankyloglossia, disorders of the stomatognathic system, and speech disorders associated with skeletal malocclusions.

Since 2018, she has been dedicated to advancing myofunctional therapy. She developed a course for Polish speech therapists called Orthognathic Speech Therapy, which has been offered in collaboration with a multidisciplinary team of surgeons, physiotherapists, and orthodontists since 2022. Additionally, she has established a permanent partnership with the Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic at the Central Veterans’ Hospital and the Clinical Hospital of the Medical University in Łódź, where she consults on patients preparing for surgical correction of malocclusion.

Anna also manages a Private Psychological and Educational Counseling Center called “Land of Imagination,” an early intervention center that provides therapy to support the development of children facing various challenges, including genetic syndromes and autism spectrum disorders. Since 2018, she has collaborated with a team on the treatment and therapy of malocclusions across all age groups. Their latest study prepared with dr Soroush Zaghi evaluated the impact of frenuloplasty on the functions of the stomatognathic system in both children and adults, was published on September 10, 2024, in the Journal of Clinical Medicine in Switzerland. Anna is dedicated to the treatment of ankylogossia using non-invasive methods and a multidisciplinary approach. She consistently advocates for functional assessment and express a strong willingness to continue research in this field.

Italy

Graduated with honors in Dentistry in Rome in 1989, with a thesis about links between posture and malocclusion. In 1992 he attended the Tweed Foundation in Tucson (Arizona). He specialized in Functional Orthodontics in 1991 and in Orthodontics in 1994. After attending courses of Applied Kinesiology, in 2000 he achieved the Diploma in Osteopathy, at CERDO in Rome, where he is still teaching diagnosis and manipulative techniques within the oral cavity. Since 2002 applies Myofunctional Therapy, according to the technique of Garliner.

In 2004 he attended the course of Neuro-Muscular Gnathology according to Jankelson, in 2006 the Dr. Planas’s course in Barcelona (Spain) and that in “Neurostomatology” in Italy. In 2007 he was co-author of the book “The New Orthodontics”. Since then, he has taught at the Masters of “Neurophysiology and pathology of the static and dynamic postures”, “Myofunctional therapy in postural field” and “Dentistry in developmental age “. In 2024 he translated “Tongue Tie” by Richard Baxter in Italian. In his clinic in Rome, he studies mainly the correlations between TMJ problems, malocclusion, swallowing and posture, by the means of the osteopathic approach.