The Houston, Sleep Education Consortium presents a unique opportunity to learn about the dentists’ role in sleep disorder treatment.
This is an opportunity to learn about Obstructive Sleep Apnea and other Sleep Disorders from Experts in both the Medical and Dental fields and how to function as an integral part of a treatment team.

In an effort to provide the best educational experience the conference dedicates one day of lectures specifically designed to address the educational needs of the DDS and the second day of lectures is open to all health care professionals with a broader range of sleep related lecture topics. Registration is available for the first day alone or both days (highly recommended).

What You Will Learn:

• An overview of sleep physiology and sleep medicine
• The impact of sleep disorders on society
• A step-by-step process of how the dentist can work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in treating patients with sleep concerns
  -How the dentist can identify patients who have a sleep disorder
• Which questionnaires to use to evaluate your patients
• How to perform an examination of the upper airway for evaluation of patients who snore or have sleep-related breathing disorder.
• Which patients can be successfully treated with dental appliances
• The differences between snoring / sleep apnea appliances
• And much, much more…

By addressing questions of patients regarding sleep issues the dentist needs to be grounded in the broader aspect of sleep disorders on basic level. The second day conference allow the dentist to become familiar with a multitude of sleep problems. This will allow the dentist to be responsive to questions their patients will ask as the dentist screens for sleep disorders within their practice.