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Dental sleep medicine in 12 lessons — screening for apnoea, tongue-tie and airway-first orthodontics, oral appliances
Obstructive sleep apnoea increasingly lands in the dental chair, and Apnea: diagnostics and treatment. Dental sleep medicine prepares you to recognise it and take part in its management. Seven speakers, including Soroush Zaghi, Derek Mahony, Marco Rosa, Roger Price, Eduardo Castrillon, Anna Colonna and Rajesh Raveendranathan, share 12 lessons and 10 h 10 min on breathing physiology, tongue function, children’s airway-driven orthodontics, mandibular advancement devices, bruxism and a neuromuscular approach to sleep appliances.
- 12lessons
- 10 h 10 minof video
- 7speakers
What you’ll be able to do
- Spot sleep-disordered breathing at a routine visit with questionnaires and red-flag findings
- Assess tongue-tie, tongue tone and tongue space with range-of-motion measures and CBCT
- Select and follow up mandibular advancement devices and weigh them against CPAP
- Plan expansion and growth modification for children with narrow maxillae
- Untangle the link between bruxism and obstructive apnoea
Inside the course
Breathing and the tongue
The course opens with normal and disturbed breathing, CO₂ measurement and the effects of stress, then spends almost two hours on ankyloglossia: its five diagnostic dimensions, Kotlow’s measurement, myofunctional therapy and where frenectomy fits.
The dentist’s role in adult apnoea
A long lesson sets out sleep-disordered breathing groups, polysomnography and polygraphy, the Baveno classification, monoblock and duoblock appliances, titratable designs, side effects and the clinical steps of making a MAD.
Airway-first work in children
Four lessons cover six exam red flags, palatal expansion for OSA, oropharyngeal exercises, bimaxillary advancement, ALF and Myobrace arch development, and a scissor-bite case linking nasal and airway anatomy to malocclusion.
Wider clinical context
Closing talks discuss why diagnosis fails, evidence for different therapies, obstruction physiology and polysomnography levels, plus ALF, MARPE and DNA appliances and TENS-based bite registration for sleep devices.
Built for
- General dentistsLearn to screen for apnoea and refer or treat with appliances in the right cases.
- Orthodontists and paediatric dentistsAirway-oriented diagnosis and growth modification protocols for children.
- TMD and bruxism cliniciansClear material on how sleep breathing and grinding interact.
Curriculum
All lessons (10 h 10 min) 12 lessons
- Breath. Norm and pathology (39 min)
- A Functional Approach to Sleep and Breathing: Tongue-Tie, Tongue-Tone, and Tongue-Space (1 h 56 min)
- Sleep apnea. What are the dentist’s roles and responsibilities? (1 h 49 min)
- Scissor-bite. The relationship of the airways tract and malocclusion (53 min)
- Airway First. Comprehensive Approach to Pediatric Orthodontics (32 min)
- Airway-Driven Pediatric Orthodontics. Diagnosis and Treatment Planning Protocols (38 min)
- Management of Sleep-Disordered Breathing. Myofunctional and Airway-Driven Approaches (23 min)
- Myofunctional Orthodontics. Management of Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing (29 min)
- Diagnosis and treatment of airways dysfunctions and sleep problems. Role of the dentist (19 min)
- Modern approaches to sleep apnea syndrome treatment (54 min)
- Bruxism and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (25 min)
- Sleep dentistry. Sleep apnea treatment in neuromuscular concept (1 h 05 min)
Before you buy
Does it follow a single treatment philosophy?
No. Speakers range from evidence-focused academics to a neuromuscular dentistry perspective, so some lessons present differing views on the same problem.
How long are the lessons?
They vary widely, from about 19 minutes to nearly two hours, depending on the speaker.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Online video course |
|---|---|
| Instructors | Marco Rosa, Derek Mahony, Soroush Zaghi and four others |
| Contents | 12 lessons |
| Duration | 10 h 10 min |
| Access | Lifetime, self-paced |
| Department | Dentistry |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |
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