Dental Sleep Medicine and Short Courses

Recommended for: Dentists or other oral health professionals of more experienced levels (moderate through to advanced), who have completed the Beginner DSM course, or Moderate-Advanced DSM clinicians who wish to expand or refresh their knowledge in more broad sleep medicine concepts and complex DSM cases.

Aims for course

• Provide updated dental sleep medicine content for dentists and oral health practitioners with a variety of more experienced knowledge levels and backgrounds from moderate to more advanced clinicians.
• Educate on the latest research findings around obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and treatment
• Educate on the latest research and practical guidance around the measurement and analysis of OSA/SDB
• Educate on what the research shows for guiding dentists to apply clinical decision-making for different aspects of oral appliance therapy.
• Provide an update on the latest research findings around sleep physiology and chronobiology and how this may affect current practices or thinking.
• Provide up-to-date peer-reviewed research conclusions and accepted thoughts amongst the sleep community on the detrimental outcomes of untreated OSA/SDB and/or poor sleep in general.
• Educate on OSA/SDB treatment particularly focused around oral appliance therapy.
• Educate on bruxism, temporomandibular dysfunction and orofacial pain and how they relate to sleep disorders.
• Provide case discussions or reports around DSM / oral appliance therapy.
• Educate and provide expert discussion on how to prevent/mitigate and manage side effects related to oral appliance therapy.
• Provide a discussion forum for registrants to learn effective processes and tips to run a successful practice involved with dental sleep medicine with collaboration with medical professionals and referrers.
• Provide a comprehensive knowledge base and refresher for FDSM candidates.