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Sleep 101 - The Dental Sleep Physician’s Medical Model

Sleep 201A - DSM Hands-On Experience &

Sleep 201B - DSM Hands-On Mastery

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Sleep 301 - The Complex Cases: Sleep & TMD

Annual - Collaborative Sleep Symposium

Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Understand the language of sleep medicine and communicate intelligently with your MD’s
•Choose Appliances, Take Bite Registrations and Manage Models Effectively
•Schedule, Treat and Follow-Up Using Dr. Allman’s 7 Appointment Protocol
•Invest wisely & Understand What Instrumentation you really need for DSM
•Identify Snorers and OSA Sufferers in Your Practice
•Market Your Sleep Practice by investing wisely for maximum ROI.

Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Better understand medical-dental diagnostic and treatment relationships
•Integrate a multidisciplinary approach to screening patients for sleep disorders
•Appropriately screen and refer patients for sleep disorders evaluation
•Discuss oral appliance therapy protocols, patient management and follow-up
•Adopt a predictable and evidence-based approach to oral appliance therapy for OSA
•Appreciate the past, present and future of sleep medicine
•Utilize clinical screening strategies from a variety of medical specialties

Course Schedule:

May 11 - 12, 2012 REGISTRATION CLOSED

June 15 - 16, 2012 (Reno, NV)

August 17 - 18, 2012 (Reno, NV)

Prerequisites:

None

AGD-PACE CEU’s:

16 Lecture Hours

Registration:

$1,295/Doctor

$595/Team

Course Schedule:

May 25 - 26, 2012 REGISTRATION CLOSED

June 29 - 30, 2012 REGISTRATION CLOSED

July 13 -14, 2012 (201A-Reno, NV)

August 24 - 25, 2012 (201B-Reno, NV)

November 2 -3, 2012 (201A-Reno, NV)

December 7 - 8, 2012 (201B-Reno, NV)

Prerequisites:

Success Level 1 or

Previous Sleep Level 1 Course

AGD-PACE CEU’s:

14 Participation, 18 Lecture

Registration:

$4,995/Doctor

(Includes 201A & 201B)

$1,495/Team

(Includes 201A & 201B)

Course Schedule:

October 11 - 13, 2012 (Reno, NV)

Prerequisites:

None

AGD-PACE CEU’s:

16 Lecture Hours

Registration:

$2,195/Doctor (DDS)

$895/Doctor (MD)

$895/Sleep Tech

$895/Team

TMD401 - Head & Neck Injection Intensive

Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Understand trigger point pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment
•Identify trigger points in muscle and relevant head and neck anatomy using intraoral and extraoral landmarks
•Develop appropriate office protocols for the administration and handling of multi dose vials, injection therapies and post injection follow-up
•Use referral pain patterns to better diagnose and treat common craniofacial pain conditions
•Administer medicaments appropriately to muscles, TMJs, tendons and ligaments following clinical examination and differential diagnoses
•Provide prolotherapy injections and follow-up to TMJs using recommended guidelines

Course Schedule:

July 27 - 28, 2012 (Reno, NV)

Prerequisites:

Success Level 2A & 2B or

Previous Sleep Level 2 Course

AGD-PACE CEU’s:

2 Participation, 14 Lecture

Registration:

$1,995/Doctor

$1,295/Team

Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Understand the clinical differential diagnoses of OSA and TMD
•Confidently prioritize multidisciplinary TMD treatment protocol
•Develop a comprehensive COMPLEX patient strategy
•Understand ascending and descending postural compensatory patterns
•Implement a multidisciplinary approach to TMD therapy
•Know when NOT to place a TMD orthotic.

Course Schedule:

May 4 - 5, 2012 (Reno, NV)

September 14 - 15, 2012 (Reno, NV)

Prerequisites:

None

AGD-PACE CEU’s:

8 Participation, 8 Lecture

Registration:

$3,295/Doctor

$1,495/Team

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Course Welcome Packages

Course Description:

Are you interested in getting involved with the fastest growing specialty in medicine? Have patients asked you for help with snoring and sleep apnea problems or CPAP alternatives? Not sure how BEST to get started on your dental sleep medicine education journey?

Interested in becoming the Dental Sleep Physician that Physicians want and need to refer to?

Attending SLEEP 101 will give you a significant advantage understanding how physicians think, how to treat Snoring/OSA patients competently and how to STOP THINKING LIKE A DENTIST!

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the foremost clinical experts in Dental Sleep Medicine.

Sleep 201A Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Implement the 7 Appointment Protocol: Hone skills from MD Referral and Initial phone call to the final appointment
•Practice impression and bite registration excellence.
•Develop a reliable system for insertion and titration success.
•Know why you are doing it right and they are doing it WRONG!
•Use forms, reports, consultation and contracts efficiently.

Sleep 201B Course Objectives:

After attending this course, you will be able to:

•Insert, Titrate, & Troubleshoot YOUR Oral Appliances
•Experience what the patient feels and best understand side effects management.
•Know what forms and reports must be managed for best patient management and MD credibility.
•Determine when combination therapy is needed and when it’s not.
•Understand first-hand what CPAP does and what it really feels like.
•Leverage PSG, portable monitors and prognosis
•Master the diagnostics of sleep: Instrumentation and interpretation
•Understand why AHI and RDI can be very misleading!

Course Description:

The first session of Dr. Allman’s Sleep 201-202 series provides dentists and TEAM a valuable hands-on experience from patient consultation and examination to appliance selection, impressions, bite registrations and model handling. Attendees will learn and practice essential clinical skills to avoid the five worst patient management mistakes.

Attendees will have the opportunity to have appliances custom fabricated to take home and truly experience first-hand what our patients are experiencing. Complex cases will be presented to give the Dental Sleep Physician better understanding of oral appliance prognosis avoiding forever the “It Is My Fault” mentality; Learn to think like a physician!

Sleep 202 continues the dentist-team hands-on experience with appliance insertion, follow-up protocol and side effects management strategies. Learn essential clinical skills and verbiage to finish your oral appliance therapy efficiently and predictably.

Course Description:

As an identified Dental Sleep Medicine practitioner, get ready to add a valuable tool to your toolbox; Head and Neck Injection Therapy. In this class, using well-placed medicaments, clinicians will learn to diagnose elusive referral pain patterns more accurately. Trigger point therapies will be presented with particular emphasis on injection therapies. TMJ, tendon and ligament arthralgia and arthrosis will also be discussed; when to inject, what to inject, how to inject.

Approved PACE Program Provider FAGD/MAGD Credit
Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. (02/01/2012) to (01/31/2015)

The Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) conducts a rigorous approval process to qualify continuing education (CE) providers to receive Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE). The process requires providers to be knowledgeable about current best practices that are employed by educational organizations throughout the world.

We display the PACE-approved logo because we’re proud to offer you world-class training.

Like the AGD, we believe that quality education leads to success in dentistry. We are committed to staying abreast of advances in diagnosis and treatment, as well as helping you to ensure that quality care is available to all patients. That’s why we chose to be AGD PACE-approved.

Our approved status ensures that the hours you gain from our CE will be accepted for relicensure credit by most licensing boards throughout North America.

Course Description:

Do you understand clinically how ascending and descending postures affect your treatment?

Is posture important and does your treatment consider compensatory postural mechanics?

Can you refer to chiropractors, massage therapists, and psychologists confidently and collaboratively?

What do you do when your splint doesn’t work?

Many of our patients referred for oral appliance therapy for OSA have TMD issues just as many of our TMD patients fail to thrive with our splint therapy due to unmanaged OSA. OSA and TMD are both considered diseases of craniofacial anatomy with overlapping clinical presentations though distinct diagnoses and sequelae. It is important to recognize these two debilitating conditions distinctly in an effort to improve patient outcomes.

Dr. Allman brings together advanced concepts regarding the TMD-OSA overlap syndrome; from patient examination and screening to clinical orchestration and management. Dr. Allman answers the difficult questions in this two day course taking a discriminating look at appliance therapies for OSA and TMD. Maximize your clinical ability to evaluate when your TMD appliance is working, and when and why it is NOT WORKING. Learn to avoid the one-hammer-one-nail TMD orthotic protocol.

This is truly the first cross-over TMD-OSA course of its kind. These are the puzzle pieces you have truly been missing. Understand yesterdays failures to improve tomorrows outcomes.

Course Description:

Medicine and dentistry come together in this annual event featuring an outstanding faculty of medical specialists and dental sleep medicine experts. This year, we have a very unique faculty line-up representing 12 different specialties including the man considered the Grandfather of Sleep, Dr. William Dement.

Our goal is to bridge the gap between medicine and dentistry educationally, philosophically, and clinically to improve pre-diagnostic screening, referral and therapeutic outcomes for our mutual patients. Not only is the MD-DDS Collaborative Sleep Symposium faculty quite diverse, more importantly, our intent is to host an equally diverse audience. This year, we invite all physicians, surgeons, dentists, nurses, physician’s assistants, technologists and TEAM interested sleep disorders, diagnoses and management. By promoting collaborative study and multidisciplinary presentation, we can synergistically advance evidence-based strategies to better manage sleep breathing disorders.

Integrating the diagnostic expertise and collaborative guidance from medical sleep physicians, nurses and technicians with dental sleep medicine experts, will allow us to better screen and manage our patients in all healthcare settings.

This symposium offers both a multidisciplinary faculty and audience. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and rub shoulders with your medical, dental, nursing and technologist colleagues. This event is truly the multidisciplinary sleep event of the year! Medicine and dentistry come together in this annual event featuring an outstanding faculty of medical specialists and dental sleep medicine experts. This year, we have a very unique faculty line-up representing 12 different specialties including the man considered the Grandfather of Sleep, Dr. William Dement.

Our goal is to bridge the gap between medicine and dentistry educationally, philosophically, and clinically to improve pre-diagnostic screening, referral and therapeutic outcomes for our mutual patients. Not only is the MD-DDS Collaborative Sleep Symposium faculty quite diverse, more importantly, our intent is to host an equally diverse audience. This year, we invite all physicians, surgeons, dentists, nurses, physician’s assistants, technologists and TEAM interested sleep disorders, diagnoses and management. By promoting collaborative study and multidisciplinary presentation, we can synergistically advance evidence-based strategies to better manage sleep breathing disorders.

Integrating the diagnostic expertise and collaborative guidance from medical sleep physicians, nurses and technicians with dental sleep medicine experts, will allow us to better screen and manage our patients in all healthcare settings.

This symposium offers both a multidisciplinary faculty and audience. Do not miss this opportunity to learn from the experts and rub shoulders with your medical, dental, nursing and technologist colleagues. This event is truly the multidisciplinary sleep event of the year!