Post-conference workshop about the Tübingen Palatal Plate (or Pre-Epiglottic Baton Plate) for infants with Robin Sequence
The 4th International Consensus Meeting on Robin Sequence was followed by a workshop on the Tübingen Palatal Plate (TPP) on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at Necker Hospital in Paris. On the initiative of Christian Poets, this workshop was organized by Véronique Abadie in order to share experiences and difficulties encountered, and above all to give advice to teams wishing to embark on its development.
Below, is the replay of this workshop in the form of a series of 10 presentations retracing the different stages involved in setting up the TPP from its manufacture to its maintenance and positioning.
This tool presents a training opportunity for those wishing to develop this treatment and is intended for all professionals.
Videos can be viewed one after the other, or individually.
The whole workshop
The different workshop themes
Introduction and overview regarding TPP history
Christian Poets
TPP for whom ?
Véronique Abadie
Manufacturing using the digital method : By the Tübingen Concept
Maite Aretxabaleta Santos
Manufacturing using the manual method : A traditional approach from Germany
Silvia Müller Hagedorn
Manufacturing using the manual method : Experience from Seattle
Kelly Evans, Barbara Sheller & Marielena Layuno Matos
Position evaluation of the TPP (spur) : Insertion and endoscopic evaluation of the prototype TPP.
Cornelia Wiechers
Position evaluation of the TPP (spur) : Insertion and endoscopic evaluation
Romain Luscan & Agnès Giuseppi
Position evaluation of the TPP (spur) : Imaging and endoscopy evaluation of the pharyngeal spur in USA (orthodontic airway palate).
Jake Dahl & Michael Barbour
Nursing with, and maintenance of, the TPP.
Petra Knechtel
Building an OAP program for infants with RS : developmental, feeding & nursing perspectives
Lindsey Benedict, Tracy Brundage & Lucy Moreman
The TETECOU Rare Diseases Health Network
contributed to the funding of this project.