Private Practice, Albany, New York, USA Dr. Kotlow is a 1972 graduate of SUNY Buffalo Dental School, and completed his pediatric dental residency at the Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio between 1972-1974. Since 1974 he has had a private practice in Albany, New York. He became Board Certified in Pediatric Dentistry in 1980, and is a Fellow in the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. Dr. Kotlow has served as President of the Third District Dental Society of New York State and served on many committees at the State level. He is a member of the American Dental Association, International College of Dentists, New York State Dental Association, as well as a member since 2000 of the Academy of Laser Dentistry (ALD). As a member of the ALD, Dr. Kotlow served on the Board of Directors, achieved Advanced Proficiency in erbium lasers as well as Standard Proficiency in the use of diode, 9300-nm CO2, and Nd:YAG lasers, and ALD Mastership status. He was the 2014 recipient of the Leon Goldman Award for Clinical Excellence from the ALD. He helped establish the ALD one-day pediatric program at the annual session. Dr. Kotlow has lectured to more than 5000 health care professionals on the diagnosis, laser treatment, and postsurgical care of infants. In addition to speaking at Academy meetings, he has lectured on lasers and pediatric dentistry throughout the United States and internationally in Israel, Canada, Taiwan, France, England, Australia, and Italy He has contributed to textbook chapters on the use and benefits soft tissue lasers, hard tissue lasers, and photobiomodulating lasers in pediatric dentistry in the Dental Clinics of North America (2004), Atlas of Laser Applications in Dentistry, and Principles and Practice of Laser Dentistry. He has had articles published on laser dentistry in the ALD publications Wavelengths, Journal of the Academy of the Academy of Laser Dentistry, and Journal of Laser Dentistry; European Archives of Pediatric Dentistry; Journal of Human Lactation; Clinical Lactation; Journal of Orthodontics; General Dentistry; Journal of the Canadian Dental Association; and many others. He has written two books : SOS 4 TOTS, a text on the treatment of lip- and tongue–ties, and an Atlas of tongue- and lip-ties. He has been involved in the development and introduction of the Isotopic Carbon Dioxide laser operating at 9300 nm known as Solea, developed and manufactured by Convergent Dental, a United States company.
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Disclosure: Dr. Kotlow has assisted in the development of a variety of laser products ,including Innovative Optics (laser glasses), T4M (videos and webinars), Schick (Sirona digital radiography), and Isolite. He is a modest investor in the development of the Solea 9300-nm all-tissue CO2 laser and as such is on Convergent Dental’s professional dental advisory board and a beta tester the Solea laser. He receives an honorarium or supplies for his participation. Contact Dr. Kotlow by e-mail at kiddsteeth@aol.com.
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