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Guest: DeWitt Wilkerson, DMD
Release Date: October 2017
In the growing medical specialty of oral medicine, airway is a subject of great importance. Disordered breathing is now linked with malocclusion, TMD, bruxism, headaches, caries risk, periodontal disease and systematic effects like diabeities and CVD. Witt will highlight these connectors and describe a checklist for screening, testing, and treating airway disorders in a dental practice.
What you will learn:
• Cause and effect relationships between airway disorders & dental problems.
• Review of the integrative dental medicine checklist
• Case examples with primary breathing disorders
• Immediate steps to implement an “Airway Centric” clinical focus.
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