Airway Prosthodontics and Sleep Dentistry: Prevention to Control (Sep 13 - 15, 2024)
hosted bySpear EducationAirway Prosthodontics and Sleep Dentistry: Prevention to Control is organized by Spear Education and will be held from Sep 13 - 15, 2024 at Spear Education, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America.
Workshop Overview:
3-Day Lecture/Hands-On:
The workshop is designed to allow you to become comfortable detecting and addressing airway and sleep issues in your general dental practice. Breathing issues will be divided into 2 categories: stressful and apnea (breath holds). Recent science will be reviewed indicating that both categories can be extremely damaging. Therefore, resolution of apnea is no longer the holy grail of treatment today. Airway dysfunction is equally critical. The age of the patient will then be added to the equation as early damage appears to be more deleterious. Identifying and treating dysfunctional breathing in children can be extremely beneficial to the body and brain for a lifetime. Finally, 3 areas of impact will be examined: neurocognitive, systemic, and craniofacial. Neurocognitive damage can range from ADD/ADHD to Alzheimer’s. The chronic stress and inflammation from breathing issues will negatively impact all body systems. Lastly, alterations in facial growth from mouth breathing sets our patient up for a lifetime of difficulty. The workshop will then help you figure out what do you do with each category of illness. While medical diagnosis and treatment will be reviewed, this workshop is built around Just Doing Dentistry. Customized care options from controlling the problems with physical therapy and sleep appliances to attempting to cure it with orthopedics and orthognathics will be analyzed.
What you will learn at this workshop:
• Identification of the airway patient via medical-dental history and craniofacial examination in the hygiene operatory
• How to utilize screening tools to demonstrate the problem and promote health-based dental solutions
• Why the top 10 dental problems found in a restorative practice could be the signs and symptoms of airway restriction.
• Contemporary orthodontic, periodontal, and orthognathic techniques that attempt to resolve airway compromises while improving the smile and bite in both children and adults
• Communicating with a team of medical and dental specialists with a special focus on getting tonsils and adenoids removed
• The Seattle Protocol: a staff-directed, systematic approach of customizing the choice of appliance
• Sleep appliance selection, delivery, and management of problems
• Getting paid for sleep appliances without the hassle of medical insurance
• Integration strategies for a general dental practice
• Hands-on Exercises
• Comprehensive airway examination from face to throat. Learning to identify deviations from normal
• Nasal breathing exercise
• Seattle Protocol- all 6 steps including creation of a sleep appliance with an obturator
• AM aligner fabrication to reduce bite changes with sleep appliances
• Pulse oximetry (2 nights)- creating an objective marker for success
• Bite registration techniques for custom sleep appliances
• Determining the best custom sleep appliance for your patient
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.
