Sharpening DSM Skills: A Clinical Workshop

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Continue your dental sleep medicine education with this new in-person AADSM workshop! Under the guidance of expert faculty, you’ll participate in discussions and activities that will build your clinical confidence and you’ll return to your practice with exciting new outlooks on optimal patient care. Join us in Chicago this September and amp up your DSM practice.

This workshop features:

  • Small-group, roundtable discussions.
  • Challenging case presentations involving treatment planning.
  • Device design exploration: materials, retention mechanisms, and calibration strategies.
  • Finding the ideal therapeutic position for each patient.
  • Discussions on best practices for side effect resolution and long-term patient management.
  • Interactive chairside exercises including peer-to-peer comprehensive head/neck and oral examinations, full arch impressions and construction bite acquisition.

Registration Rates

 Member $5,500  $4,125 
 Nonmember  

$6,600  $4,875

We offer a 75% discount to AADSM members who are active-duty military or employed by the Veterans Administration or Federal Public Health Service. If you are not currently a Federal Service Member, please contact us at info@aadsm.org for assistance with joining membership prior to registering for the Sharpening DSM Skills: A Clinical Workshop in order to take advantage of this discount. Thank you for your service.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the workshop, participants will gain confidence in their ability to:

  • Incorporate screening protocols for adult sleep-related breathing disorders including skeletal, soft tissue and functional assessments of the craniomandibular complex and nasal-oral airway.
  • Perform a comprehensive dental sleep medicine exam and extrapolate key findings into appropriate patient management such as treatment planning, device design and side effect management.
  • Educate, motivate, and empower patients to participate in oral appliance success through self-care, compliance, titration, exercises and symptomatic tracking.
  • Improve OAT outcomes by identifying and targeting patient-unique disease expression in order to improve efficacy through home applied strategies and collaborative treatments with medical specialties.
  • Continue to build an understanding of the medical practice model with medical-legal considerations.
  • Perfect an appropriate algorithm for patient management that begins with screening and ends with long-term follow-up.

Prerequisites

To be eligible for this workshop, individuals must either hold Diplomate or international Certificant status with the ABDSM or have completed the AADSM Mastery Program between 2018-2022.

Faculty Bios and COI Disclosures

For additional questions about this, reach out to rprince@aadsm.org.