Credits: 6
Course Description:
Dental sleep medicine is one of the fastest-growing areas of dentistry. This full-day workshop provides an in-depth exploration of snoring, Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), sleep bruxism, and their associated health implications when left untreated. Designed as a dynamic learning experience, this workshop combines lecture and hands-on practice.
You will learn how to measure the patient’s range of motion, adjust various sleep devices, take the 3-D bite, and make morning repositioners. Each attendee will leave having fitted and worn a provisional sleep device as well as experiencing a level 4 HSAT.
This fast-paced course will raise your awareness of OSA and give you the tools to kickstart OSA screening and testing protocols in your practice.
Attendees are invited to join their dental colleagues for dinner and conversation the evening before the workshop, included in your ticket cost.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and why the American Dental Association says every dentist should be involved in dental sleep medicine.
- Learn about the spectrum of sleep disordered breathing from snoring to OSA.
- Understand the relationship between sleep bruxism and OSA.
- Gain knowledge about the scope of the problem and an understanding of how many patients are already walking through your dental office doors every day with this disease.
- Learn OSA terminology so you can speak confidently with your medical colleagues.
- Learn the health risks associated with sleep disordered breathing.
- Recognize the signs, symptoms, and behaviors that may indicate sleep disordered breathing.
- Understand how CBTC adds to the screening and treating process of dental sleep.
- Review the current treatment modalities for snoring and sleep apnea.
- Learn a simple and effective way to screen your existing patient population for sleep related disorders.
- Learn methods to facilitate sleep testing for “at risk” patients.
- Have a high-level understanding of the systems needed to implement dental sleep medicine into a dental practice.
- Gain hands-on knowledge of most common mandibular advancement devices
- Experience a level 4 NightOwl Home Sleep Apnea Test (HSAT) and review your results with our experts
- Learn techniques for measuring patient’s range of motion
- Understand the concepts and participate in making an AM Aligner morning repositioning device
- Understand indications and experience fitting your own provisional mandibular advancement device
Schedule:
Thursday, August 15
- Dinner: 6:00 p.m. (Location TBD)
Friday, August 16
- Breakfast: 7:30 a.m.
- Intro Course: 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
