Sleep 101: An Introduction to Sleep Science & Dental Sleep Medicine
A Downloadable Lecture
$495 / 4 hour total runtime
Instructors:
Deepak Shrivastava, MD, D.ABSM, D.ABIM (Sleep), FCCP, FACP, FAASM, RPSGT
Ron Dean, DMD, D.ACSDD, D.ABDSM
Purchasing Details
Cost: $495.00
File Format: Downloadable 1 gigabyte ZIP file that unzips into two unrestricted .mp4 video files. (Lectures are downloadable as a compilation; they cannot be downloaded individually.) This download will take around 30 minutes on a broadband connection.
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Background
In 2006, The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) published “Practice Parameters for the Treatment of Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) with Oral Appliances.” These practice parameters updated previously published recommendations for the use of oral appliances in the treatment of sleep disordered breathing based on the scientific literature published since 1995. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) now recommends oral appliances as a first line treatment for snoring and mild to moderate OSA. Oral appliances are also indicated for patients who are not candidates for traditional therapies such as Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) and surgery, as well as patients who are CPAP intolerant.
Sleep 101 Objectives
1) To introduce you, the healthcare professional, to the basic science underlying the diagnosis and management of one of the most common adult sleep disorders, and
2) To provide you, the healthcare practitioner, with an introduction to the comprehensive and collaborative approach that is necessary to treat sleep breathing disorders within the scope of your practice.
Course Content
Sleep 101 is split into two two-hour segments: An Introduction to Dental Sleep Medicine; An Introduction to Sleep Medicine.
Sleep 101: Dental Sleep Medicine
The role of the dentist, as well as the dental team, in the recognition of patients at risk for OSA and snoring is now well established. However, unless practitioners and their staff are educated in sleep disordered breathing, many symptoms will go undetected, and those patients will continue to have impaired health and daily functioning issues as a result.
The purpose of this segment of Sleep 101, therefore, is to provide an introduction to dental sleep medicine so that you can provide a more comprehensive and collaborative approach to the treatment of sleep disordered breathing.
Sleep 101: Sleep Medicine
Sleep medicine as a specialty has burgeoned in the last 20 years, yet it remains a relatively young discipline within the field of health care. It has relevance over a wide range of other specialties including pulmonary medicine, cardiology, psychiatry, and neurology and has significant impact on public health aspects such as driving, work performance, and hypertension.
Dentists contribute significantly to the care of a sleep disordered patient. However, to be able to effectively practice in this area as a specialist in sleep disorders, it is important to have a solid grasp of the basics underlying most of adult sleep medicine.
This segment of Sleep 101, therefore, aims to provide grounding in sleep science that underlies the diagnosis and management of the more common adult sleep disorders.
