To help you better serve your patients and provide advanced care in your dental office, mini-residencies might be just what you need. For 2019, make the most of your year by signing up for dental sleep medicine mini-residencies. These residency series are a 4-part, 64 CE credit programs that provide a completely comprehensive educational experience for implementing dental sleep medicine in your dental practice.

Mini-residency overview

These sessions are taught by leading educators in dental sleep medicine, Mayoor Patel, DDS, MS, and Terry Bennett, DMD. Each course will emphasize hands-on and practice learning. Dentists who attend these sessions will gain the skills and confidence you need to incorporate sleep apnea treatment into practice successfully.

Dentists will receive two sleep apnea oral appliances and will go through the entire experience of examination, impression and bite registrations, appliance delivery and fitting, and follow-up/calibration exams. There is also an opportunity to shadow an American Academy of Sleep Medicine accredited sleep lab throughout the program.

After each session dentists will be given homework assignments to complete, but don’t worry, these won’t be too hard. The assignments will include literature to read and cases to prepare. Team members will also be given tasks to work on, including communication scripts and physician outreach goals.

At the end of the fourth session, each dental practice should feel confident in their ability to:

  • Treat obstructive sleep apnea patients.
  • Have referral networks in place.
  • Medical insurance reimbursement implemented.
  • Ready for various dental sleep medicine accreditation programs.

Sign up for our dental sleep medicine mini-residency programs in 2019. We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming lecture!