On-demand pediatric dentistry continuing education program that offers you the education, resources, mentorship and collaboration to help you successfully implement pediatric airway and sleep in your practice.
Level 1: Screening Diagnosis & Risk Assessment
13.5 Hours
- What is Sleep Disordered Breathing?
- The parent who says, “my child does not have apnea.”
- The importance of early recognition and intervention… how many nights without proper oxygenation and proper deep and REM sleep are too many nights for your child?
- Diagnosis—how do we accurately and objectively recognize airway issues in children?
- How the pathophysiology of SDB in children is different than in adults, and why it’s often more difficult to diagnose.
- Medical comorbidities of pediatric SDB.
- Screening tools that are easy to use, affordable and effective.
- How to best communicate with your medical colleagues (with samples and templates).
- Understanding Pediatric PSG’s (and getting a good one in the first place—since kids are NOT just little adults).
- Data collection: what do you need and why?
- How to evaluate a ceph for possible airway issues (and communicate with your orthodontic colleagues).
- Tracey’s Airway Alphabet for Dental Airway strategies!
- FDA approved Home Sleep Testing for Kids? Are they safe? Reliable? Worth it?
- How to work with your medical and dental colleagues, instead of trying to work around them (and how to stay out of trouble).
Level 2: Understanding & Applying Interventional Strategies
14 Hours
- Goals of interventional strategies: what can we realistically accomplish?
- Understanding the guidelin