OVERVIEW

Airway Prosthodontics: Just Do Dentistry is organized by Spear Education and will be held from Oct 02 - 03, 2026 in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America.

Description:
Airway Prosthodontics is the study of aberrant breathing - when awake and asleep - and its impact on the development and health of the stomatognathic system. This specialty moves beyond sleep appliances and their impact on the airway during sleep. Learn to recognize breathing-disturbed sleep and the associated anatomic "choke points" of respiration. This course will give you a solid foundation and systematic approach to controlling and resolving airway issues and their associated dental co-morbidities within a restorative dental practice.

What you will learn at this In-Person Seminar:

To understand how breathing-related disruption of sleep is not limited to apnea.
How upper airway flow limitation creates an environment for poor sleep consolidation and chronic stress.
To identify the three categories of airway patients and the screening questionnaires and monitoring devices employed for each group.
The causal and correlational relationships between the top 10 dental problems and dysfunctional breathing.
The importance of breathing disordered sleep on the systemic, neurocognitive, and craniofacial development of our pediatric patients.
To determine why the ideal time for intervention is when children are 4 years old, and how dentistry needs to adapt to a Prevent-Control-Resolve strategy.
To understand the importance of nasal breathing, the damaging sequela of mouth breathing, and the strategies to promote proper function.
A systematic approach to controlling and resolving sleep-induced airway issues – This six-step protocol walks dentists through an evaluation and management strategy that ranges from simple options to manage airway issues to progressively more complex solutions.
How to expand their interdisciplinary dental team to include sleep physicians, otolaryngologists, myofunctional therapists, and more