Frontline Dental Sleep and Bruxism Therapy Course
What You'll Learn
The Frontline Bruxism and Dental Sleep Course is a comprehensive, live course that gives the dentist and entire team a sound understanding of the steps required to successfully integrate dental sleep medicine and bruxism treatment into the practice.
This course equips practitioners with the knowledge and tools to conduct thorough screenings for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), bruxism, and orofacial pain, ensuring holistic patient care. Through in-depth instruction on head and neck anatomy, participants learn to identify connections between bruxism and OSA, while gaining expertise in selecting and utilizing home sleep and bruxism monitors. Additionally, they explore oral appliance classifications, discerning when to prescribe them and how to navigate treatment complexities, alongside insights into effective pain management strategies and medical insurance billing procedures.
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Evaluate how to diagnose, and treatment plan patients to achieve the best
possible esthetic and therapeutic outcomes with injectable therapy - Demonstrate clinical proficiency and practice on live patients with the proper materials, techniques, and instrumentation necessary to deliver botulinum toxin
- Integrate botulinum toxin therapy into your practice
Additional Information
This course equips practitioners with the knowledge and tools to conduct thorough screenings for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), bruxism, and orofacial pain, ensuring holistic patient care. Through in-depth instruction on head and neck anatomy, participants learn to identify connections between bruxism and OSA, while gaining expertise in selecting and utilizing home sleep and bruxism monitors. Additionally, they explore oral appliance classifications, discerning when to prescribe them and how to navigate treatment complexities, alongside insights into effective pain management strategies and medical insurance billing procedures.
Course Objectives
- Learn to perform an all-inclusive patient screening and exam for OSA, bruxism, and orofacial pain
- In depth head and neck anatomy instruction as it relates to bruxism and obstructive sleep apnea
- Choosing and using the ideal home sleep and bruxism monitor for your practice
- Understand oral appliance classifications for OSA and bruxism and learn protocols for choosing the correct oral appliance for each patient
- Are all laboratories the same in making oral appliances? Absolutely not!
- Recognize when bruxism and oral appliances are essential and when they are detrimental to health
- Understand the use of chemotherapeutics such as lidocaine and botulinum toxin for simple and effective pain management, differential diagnosis and allowing patients to adapt and be comfortable with oral appliance therapy.
- Marketing dental sleep medicine to your patients and their physicians
- Acquire a basic understanding of the steps necessary to bill medical insurance and medicare
8:30 – Registration
9:00 – 10:15 – Lecture
- What is Sleep
- Screening and Obstructive Sleep Apnea in your Practice
10:15 – Break
10:30 – 11:30 – Sleep Reports/Treatment/Appliances
11:30 – 12:00 – STATDDS Monitor Presentation from David Wester
12:00 – 1:00 –Medical Billing Presentation with Randy Curran from Pristine Medical Billing – (This will be given remotely)
1:00 – 1:45 – Lunch/ (Dr Haley and David Wester will be available to answer questions)
1:45 – 2:30 – Hands on Participation/ Bite Record,
2:30 – 3:30 – Delivery of Appliance, Adjustment of Appliances, Complications.
3:30 – Break
3:45 – 4:15 – Marketing/ Relationship with Physicians
4:15 – 4:45 – Following the Patients Journey from Start to Finish
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12 Month
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18 Month
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The American Academy of Facial Esthetics is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
The American Academy of Facial Esthetics is designated as an approved PACE Program Provider by the Academy of General Dentistry. The formal continuing education programs of this program provider are accepted by AGD for Fellowship, Mastership and membership maintenance credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by a state or provincial board of dentistry or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from 4/1/2019 to 3/31/2023. Provider ID# 321332