Airway Therapy for the Primary Care Dental Team

An overview of sleep disordered breathing and what the dental team can do about it. We start with the basics: sleep, dental appliances, and the critical role nasal function has in respiration.
We’ll discuss how to work with sleep physicians, medical insurance interaction, AND the “ABCs” of marketing. Then we go a bit beyond the basics: complications, titration and follow-up
testing, and team development.

Speaker (s)

Steve Carstensen, DDS, FAGD, DABDSM, FAAS

Dr. Carstensen is an educational consultant and the Director of Clinical Education for Airway Technologies. Since 2011, he has designed sleep courses, given keynotes, and lectured exclusively on sleep & sleep-related breathing disorders. Patients at his clinic, Seattle Sleep, benefit from his nearly three decades of experience treating snoring and sleep-related breathing disorders. A diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and Fellow of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, he is internationally recognized for his leadership in dental sleep medicine and lectures globally throughout the year. Dr. Carstensen is the ADA’s consultant on Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders. He is also the co-author of The Clinician’s Handbook for Dental Sleep Medicine (Quintessence), now in its second edition.

Course Highlights

• Collaborate with sleep physicians, and develop a team understanding of sleep and how to contribute to overall health in a dental practice
• Communicate the medical consequences of untreated SDB (Sleep Disordered Breathing) to patients
• Apply basic appliance therapy to qualified patients
• Improve health in many patients with an emphasis on nose breathing