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A Collaborative Approach to Sleep / Airway Disorders
| Course # | 2060 |
| Date | 11/24/2018 |
| Time | 9:00am - 4:00pm |
| Topic | Sleep Apnea |
| Tuition | $250.00 |
| Credits | 6 |
| Course Info | Full Day |
| Speaker(s) | Marcello Allegra, Kevin L. Boyd, Steve Carstensen, Lisa Feiner, Peter P. Ferro, Michael Gelb, Jeffrey S. Hindin, Dave Kuhns, Steven Lamberg, Ben Miraglia, Marc Moeller, Mark T. Murphy, Barry Raphael, Oliver C. Roberson, Thomas Romo, III, Nancy H. Rothstein, Jerald Simmons, Leslie Stevens |
| Description | The Foundation for Airway Health Presents Airway Summit 2018: A Collaborative Approach to Sleep / Airway Disorders Leading dental educators, scientific academy representatives, allied health organizations, representatives from the military and members of the public offer information about what the dental team must know, and can do to impact positive health change for patients. In October 2017, the ADA approved a policy statement, emphasizing dentistry’s role in screening for sleep-related breathing disorders. Is your practice prepared? Learn from not one but 18 presenters. This is a good place to begin your sleep education as well as to expand it to new levels. Sleep Related Breathing Disorders (SRBDs) are a set of potentially serious medical conditions – snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and others – characterized by disruptions in normal breathing patterns. Metabolic, cardiovascular, respiratory, dental and other diseases have been found to be related. Dentists are the only health care provider with the knowledge and expertise to provide oral appliance therapy (OAT). This program covers dental sleep medicine, restorative dentistry, orthodontics, myofunctional therapy, TMD, physiological monitoring, public health initiatives and more. Learn how to provide OAT for mild and moderate sleep apnea when a patient does not tolerate a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device; recognize and managing OAT side effects; and continually update dental sleep medicine knowledge and training at the Airway Summit. Learn to:
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