Description

You will receive 1.5 credit(s) of continuing education credit upon successful completion of this course.

Is there a way to predict who should get an oral appliance to treat their sleep related breathing disorders and who is a poor candidate? How do you help patients beyond simple appliance therapy? How do you know if your therapy is working? Have you provided an advancement device but the patient is back with complaints? What do you do then? How does treating a patient for airway issues impact your restorative treatment plan?

At the end of this time, attendees will be able to:

  • Discuss how to use technology to more accurately predict who are good candidates for oral appliance therapy.
  • Have more confidence planning therapy and dealing with unwanted side effects.
  • Provide patients additional ways of helping them breathe better at night

Course Curriculum

  Dental Sleep Medicine - Beyond the Basics
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Steve Carstensen, DDS

Steve Carstensen, DDS has been treating sleep apnea and snoring since 1997, has completed training at UCLA’s Mini-Residency in Sleep and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. He lectures internationally at over 20 events per year training dentists in sleep medicine, directs sleep education at the Pankey Institute for Advanced Dental Education and Spear Education and is a guest lecturer at University of the Pacific and Louisiana State University Dental Schools. From 2007 – 2010 Steve served the ADA on the Council for Annual Sessions and was Chair of the 2010 ADA meeting. Since 2014 he has been Editor-in-Chief of Dental Sleep Practice Magazine. Together with a partner he founded Premier Sleep, a practice in Bellevue, WA entirely devoted to helping people breathe better and sleep better.