This area of study is focused on the 21st century approach to making your practice include more of a focus on the overall health of your patients. With a focus on oral health and it’s links to overall health in patients that goes beyond the dental chair.
Airway & Breathing Related Disorders – Evaluation, Diagnosis & Treatment
This hands-on workshop will enable the dentist to develop specific clinical guidelines for evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of Airway & Breathing Related Disorders. Participants will learn how to examine and test patients, along with phase one management options. Phase two management options, which may include arch expansion and reorganization of the dental occlusion, following the Dawson Principles will be explored.
Dentistry’s recent interest in Sleep Apnea has evolved into an important new understanding of the significant links between airway and breathing disorders, TMD and malocclusions and systemic inflammation, creating new opportunities for dental teams to address the patient’s complete health. By developing an integrative dental medicine approach, dentists will have the ability to expand services, play a positive role in our current health care crisis and collaborate with the larger medical community.
Combining science with the practical application of diagnosing, evaluating, and treating airway and sleep disordered breathing. Interact with and learn from world authorities on airway and breathing disorders.
