The Team

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Dr. Todd Dickerson is an inventor, international researcher and lecturer, author, and orthodontist.  With more than 30 years of experience in the field of facial development, Dr. Dickerson is an expert in safe accelerated tooth movement and midface development. He holds multiple patents in the healthcare field which provide products for doctors and patients to improve their lives in a safe, efficient manner. By helping facial growth and airways develop properly, patients of Dickerson Orthodontics are 90% less likely to require cuspid exposure surgery than a typical orthodontic practice. Realizing there is a link between tethered tissue, such as tongue and lip ties, with facial and airway development in many of these patients, it became obvious that more qualitative research was needed to better understand the correlation. 

 Michele Bolte is the director and Co-Founder of the Tongue-Tied Research and Treatment Center here in the valley. She has previously worked with small healthcare practices to fortune 100 companies.  Michele is a Speech and Communications graduate from the University of Texas and has worked extensively with children having disabilities and speech delay. She is also a former world class runner, All-American, and world record holder. Michele has been helping develop and test new medical and exercise products such as the Push-up & Plank Trainer which was designed and patented by Dr. Todd Dickerson.