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Breathing and Airway Support AI Summary

 

In-Person Continuing Education Lecture

Full Day - 6 CE

**Registration Deadline 5/30/25**

Registration is closed.

Synopsis: 

Your patients come to you for dental health care, but nothing you do as a dentist is unrelated to how they breathe. When people have troubles breathing, it affects sleep and every part of their physiology. Dentists have a specific and vital role in helping people discover, diagnose, and treat their airway / breathing problems. This talk will enable you to find those patients at risk, understand how to link your dental health findings to those breathing problems, and address total health with each patient. This approach is different for every stage of life. Everyone in the dental office will be able to engage patients at a new level.

Course Objectives:

• Know what to do when the screening shows they are at risk
• Outline treatment options for patients - from children to adults
• Link common dental problems to an underlying breathing disorder
  

About Our Presenter:

Steve Carstensen DDS has treated sleep apnea and snoring in Bellevue, WA since 1998. He’s the Consultant to the ADA for sleep related breathing disorders and heads the ADA’s Children’s Airway Initiative. He trained at UCLA’s Mini-Residency in Dental Sleep Medicine and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine. He lectures internationally and directs sleep education at Airway Technologies and the Pankey Institute, in addition to advising several other sleep-related manufacturers. In 2014 he helped found Dental Sleep Practice Magazine and currently serves as Chief Dental Editor.  He has written chapters for several related textbooks. In 2019, A Clinician’s Handbook for Dental Sleep Medicine, written with a co-author, was released. The second edition is soon to be published by Quintessence. The AADSM awarded him the 2023 Distinguished Service Award.

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