Airway Prosthodontics – Taking Dentistry Beyond Sleep Apnea and Advancement Appliances (Aug 16 - 17, 2024)
hosted bySpear EducationAirway Prosthodontics – Taking Dentistry Beyond Sleep Apnea and Advancement Appliances is organized by Spear Education and will be held from Aug 16 - 17, 2024.
Seminar Overview:
Airway Prosthodontics is the study of aberrant breathing — when awake and asleep — and its impact on the development and health of the stomatognathic system. This specialty moves beyond sleep appliances and their impact on the airway during sleep. Learn to recognize breathing-disturbed sleep and the associated anatomic "choke points" of respiration. This course will give you a solid foundation and systematic approach to controlling and resolving airway issues and their associated dental co-morbidities within a restorative dental practice.
What you will learn at this seminar:
• To understand how breathing-related disruption of sleep is not limited to apnea.
• How upper airway flow limitation creates an environment for poor sleep consolidation and chronic stress.
• To identify the three categories of airway patients and the screening questionnaires and monitoring devices employed for each group.
• The causal and correlational relationships between the top 10 dental problems and dysfunctional breathing.
• The importance of breathing disordered sleep on the systemic, neurocognitive, and craniofacial development of our pediatric patients.
• To determine why the ideal time for intervention is when children are 4 years old, and how dentistry needs to adapt to a Prevent-Control-Resolve strategy.
• To understand the importance of nasal breathing, the damaging sequela of mouth breathing, and the strategies to promote proper function.
• A systematic approach to controlling and resolving sleep-induced airway issues – This six-step protocol walks dentists through an evaluation and management strategy that ranges from simple options to manage airway issues to progressively more complex solutions.
• How to expand their interdisciplinary dental team to include sleep physicians, otolaryngologists, myofunctional therapists, and more.
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.
