Learning About Sleep Disorders and Collaboration Just Got Easier!

We are excited to invite you to the upcoming Dental Sleep Conference, which aims to highlight the increasing connection between dentistry and sleep medicine. This event will underscore dentists' vital role in enhancing patients' overall health beyond merely fitting oral appliances.

The Sleep Education Consortium Dental Conference will focus on the urgent need to address sleep disorders, an area often overlooked in our healthcare system. As the prevalence of these disorders rises, dental professionals must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to correctly identify, collaborate, and manage patients affected by sleep pathologies, which are now linked to various other health conditions.

Providers may earn up to 24 CE Credits in combination with
PACE and CMEfy.

Upon completion of the three-day course, you will be able to:

• Discuss treatment rationale with patients who have been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea.
• Discuss the link between obstructive breathing and temporomandibular joint disorders.
• Describe the coordinated-care model between dentists and physicians – “The Team Approach” for managing patients with sleep-disordered breathing.
• Identify complications related to oral appliance therapy.
• Describe the dental assessment of the airway, sleep bruxism, TMD, and the challenges facing dentists.
• Describe the social issues associated with the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, and formulate an approach for dealing with such patients that includes physicians as outlined in accepted guidelines, thus raising the standard of care.
• Describe the process of choosing the correct oral appliance to treat a patient with SDB.
• Describe to patients other methods used to treat sleep-related breathing disturbances, such as continuous/bi-level positive airway pressure (CPAP/BiPAP) and surgery.
• Understand the role of early interventional orthodontics in children as young as three-years old.
• Understand the role of surgery for airway enhancement, which consists of surgically facilitated orthodontic therapies, Maxillo-Mandibular advancements, Inspire, frenectomy, and more.
• Identify and support other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, insomnia, parasomnias, and more.
• Understand the dentist’s role in cognitive performance: The mouth-brain connection from infants to elderly.

Register Today for the 2025 SEC Sleep Conference!