Imagine a way that the warmth of light can improve the way that you feel and live. 

That is the goal of RestOralase.

By applying two frequencies of laser energy in a carefully designed sequence of therapies, the RestOralase provider can achieve both immediate and long-term results of treatment for patients from childhood to adulthood.  

For information on treating babies ages 0-2, please visit www.babylase.com

Your tongue has a resting place. When everything is working the way it should, it sits gently against the roof of your mouth — keeping your airway open, your jaw relaxed, and your swallowing coordinated.

Research from the Mayo Clinic found something surprising. When the tongue rests on the floor of the mouth instead of the palate, the jaw muscles are measurably less tense and the heart's rhythm is more flexible.

 The tongue sitting low looks like relaxation. 

When life is demanding — chronic pain, poor sleep, restricted breathing — the nervous system adapts quietly. One of its most common adaptations is dropping the tongue to the floor of the mouth to reduce its sensory load. 

Over time, this posture causes the connective tissue in the floor of the mouth to thicken and stiffen. The molecule that keeps tissue layers smooth and slippery — hyaluronic acid — builds up under repeated pressure, turning soft, mobile tissue into something dense and restrictive. The tongue that was resting low now has a structural reason to stay there.

This is why telling someone to practice keeping their tongue on the roof of their mouth rarely works. The effort creates more tension, and the moment attention shifts, the tongue goes back down. 

Nothing has changed underneath.

Addressing this properly means removing the reason the body is resisting — not practicing a position it cannot comfortably hold.

BabyLase intervenes at the beginning of this cycle, in infants whose tongue movement is restricted from birth. The brainstem circuits that regulate sleep and breathing are built on the sensory experience of the tongue against the palate during those first months of feeding. When restriction degrades that experience from the start, the nervous system compensates from the start. BabyLase uses gentle laser energy to calm restricted tissues and support normal tongue movement, giving the developing nervous system the input it needs to build healthy circuits rather than compensatory ones.

RestOralase addresses the established cycle in older patients. A 1064 nm laser calms the sensitized nerve fibers driving the restriction, reduces inflammation, and warms the thickened floor-of-mouth tissue to just above 40 degrees — the temperature at which the dense gel holding the restricted layers together begins to soften.  With the tissue prepared, a specific hands-on release technique gently separates the restricted layers. 

The tongue can lift freely — not through effort, but because there is no longer anything in the way. 

For patients who are snoring, a second laser may also be utilized to stimulate the soft palate to produce new collagen over the following weeks, firming the tissue and reducing the airway vibration that has been keeping the nervous system sensitized throughout the night.

The goal is not a tongue on the palate as a position to maintain. It is a nervous system that no longer needs to do anything else.

We're building a full library: short videos for families and the public, longer teaching pieces for providers, a guided tour of the NeuralFORM Neighborhood, the twelve-module NeuralFORM Aware Series, hands-on courses through The Synergy Academy, and a literature review in preparation that sorts the research honestly: what is established, what is a reasonable extension, and what is still an open question.

If we dismiss what we cannot prove, we miss the opportunity to prove what we can.

— Dr. Angie Tenholder