Dental sleep medicine is one of the fastest growing fields of dentistry. Uniquely combining medicine and dentistry, it provides one of the most important emerging forms of treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA): oral appliance therapy. Dentists are needed to fill a tremendous gap in the public health system by identifying undiagnosed OSA and caring for patients who suffer from this sleep disorder.
Treating this very grateful group of patients is meaningful, financially rewarding and, in many cases, literally a matter of life or death. In this workshop, dentists and auxiliaries will learn how to identify OSA patients within their practice, and how to manage their condition using the proven treatment approach of oral appliance therapy.
