Pediatric Dentistry Continuing Education
Join ASAP Pathway today to get access to the following:
Screening Diagnosis & Risk Assessment
Understanding & Applying Interventional Strategies
Advanced Interventional Strategies
How To Take Pediatric Airway and Sleep from Expensive Hobby to Profitable Practice
Screening Diagnosis & Risk Assessment
Module 1 Courses:
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).
Understanding & Applying Interventional Strategies
Module 2 Courses:
14 Hours
- Goals of interventional strategies: what can we realistically accomplish?
- Understanding the guidelines of management for Pediatric OSA.
- The concept of continuous growth guidance vs. orthodontic management.
- Evaluation and diagnosis of myofunctional disorders and what to do next.
- Pre-orthodontic phase therapy.
- Which myofunctional therapy appliances to use. How, why and when?
- Myofunctional therapy: Should you get a team member involved? Which one? Hygienist or DA? Neither? Both?
- How and when to refer, depending on your current situation, desires, training, office resources and clinical capacity (i.e. how to not overwhelm your entire team)
- Understanding all the different disciplines, their roles and how to orchestrate excellent care for your pediatric patients.
Advanced Interventional Strategies
Module 3 Courses :
10 Hours
- Myofunctional therapy, breathing, posture.
- Orthopedic techniques.
- Orthodontic techniques.
- Orthodontic concepts: Evidence based managements for expansion, protraction and the lagging mandible.
- Interdisciplinary care vs multidisciplinary care.
- It’s NOT all about the anatomy: understanding and addressing non anatomical factors in pediatric sleep and breathing.
How To Take Pediatric Airway and Sleep from Expensive Hobby to Profitable Practice
Module 4 Courses:
4 Hours
- Different Business models: One size NEVER fits all!
- Marketing yourself (especially when you HATE marketing yourself).
- Developing the Interdisciplinary Team.
- Other influences on Sleep—Sleep hygiene/blue light/behaviors/electronics near/in bed, Vitamin D, Medications, stimulants that interfere with REM/cause bruxism, hormones, etc.
- Training your team!
- 5 Keys to 500% increase in one year in sleep and tmd practice
- Medical billing: if, when, how and “just because you can doesn’t mean you should!”
In addition to the 40 hours of content above, we ALSO HAVE…
- Evidence Based Management
- The Role of the Nose in Airway Collapse
- How to Order Vitamin D Testing Through Ultra Lab Tests
- Using Anatomodel
- How to Interpret High Resolution Pulse Oximetry
- How to tell the difference between CPC Signal quality or ECG abnormality
- How to use a TMJ Tutor
- Case study reviews
- Members’ questions
- Interview with Dr. Stasha Gominak – Vitamin D
- Interview with Dr. Angie Tenholder – ALF
- An Interactive conversation with Dr. Steven Park on how to successfully collaborate with ENTs
- Ed Zebovitz on the growth and development of TMJs
- and more added each month!
- Screening tools and forms.
- Screening questionnaires at the hygiene chair
- Paperwork for monitoring devices (HRPO, CPC, etc.).
- Initial Evaluation Templates.
- Progress Notes (Follow up) Templates.
- Photo Templates.
- Flow sheet of how to incorporate in the dental office.
- Letter templates for correspondence with the medical community.
- AND MORE!!!