Sleep Medicine

This is a recording of the September 2022 ADA Children's Airway Conference

Overview
Now more than ever, families are paying attention to how their children breathe as part of their overall health and ability to thrive in challenging times. There is no more important member of the healthcare team than dentists to identify and set families on the path to health, but dentists cannot do this alone.
The American Dental Association’s commitment to children’s airway health continues with our fifth event to help dentists who see children learn practical skills of communication, evaluation, and collaboration to lead their teams in creating positive, healthy changes in their communities. 
This course brings world leaders in dentistry, speech pathology/myofunctional therapy, airway orthodontics, and sleep surgery together to present practical education.

Learning Objectives
• Lead your team in creating an effective communications plan for identifying children at risk and presenting next steps to families
• Arm families with a good understanding of tissue-tie revision so they can deal with conflicting advice
• Discuss the value of myofunctional therapy with families and lead kids through some simple exercises that make a difference
• Understand how to see malocclusion from an airway-support perspective and develop a plan for better breathing while ensuring excellent orthodontic outcomes
• Know that sleep surgery is a critical component of success, but not always the only consideration

Presentations

1. Integrating Pediatric Airway into Dental Practice — Dr. Shereen Lim
2. The Essential Role of Function in the Oral Health Paradigm — Sharon Moore
3. Fourth Dimension Nasal Breathing — Steve Carstensen, D.D.S.
4. A Team Approach to Managing Children's Airway — Dr. Shereen Lim
5. How Little People Learn Habits for a Lifetime — Sharon Moore
6. Restoring Missed Milestones in Facial and Airway Development —Stanley Yung Liu, M.D., D.D.S., F.A.C.S.
7. Airway Focused Orthodontics — Eric Phelps, D.D.S., M.S.
   
   
   

Overview
Little ones (and their caregivers) need you to teach them new skills to breathe better. Join us to hear how pediatric dentists apply behavioral skills in their practice. World leaders in myofunctional therapy and otolaryngology will help you find new ways to address problems in your patients. There will be an opportunity to add your clinical experience to a special research effort to change how children are treated.

Overview
The early ages, before 71 months, is the best time to discover breathing problems in kids. If they don't breathe properly early, they don't grow to their best airway health and full life potential. There are screening, diagnostic, and treatment steps every dentist can take to ensure their young patients are given every advantage. You will learn from experts who have put into practice coaching for health in children and provided therapy to improve the airway. Orthodontic and otolaryngology specialists will share what they add to a team of professionals to help general and pediatric dentists treat their patients and teach guardians what can be done to give children their best chance at health for a lifetime. Directed exercises and Q&A with the experts will prompt every dental team to create action plans to talk about airway health for their next child patient.

After completing this course, the learner should be able to:
• Identify children at risk for poor development of a healthy airway
• Discuss new-thinking therapy choices to kids and their guardians
• Form a strategy within their office to address overall children’s health from a strongly preventive perspective