Almost twenty years ago, Dr. Glassman gave his first dental sleep medicine course…
Dr Glassman quickly became a leader in the field, with these two days being the springboard for many of the key opinion leaders in dental sleep medicine today. Dr. Glassman’s two-day course was the first course sponsored and recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Dr. Glassman was chosen by SomnoMED to help introduce the SomnoDent oral appliance to the United States after the successful start in Australia. Dr. Glassman toured the US in 2008-2009 in 25 cities with a two-day introduction to dental sleep medicine course.
The two-day course has, of course, continued to be updated and taught. Dr. Glassman joined with Dental Sleep Masters to become their Clinical Director, and then began teaching a Mini Residency program with his colleague and good friend in Toronto, Canada, Dr. John Viviano. Dr. Glassman then took on a position of the Director of Education for the Academy of Dental Sleep Masters and taught a full year program to approximately twenty five excellent practitioners.
And NOW the two-day course has returned – more practical and yet evidence based than ever before.
Dr. Glassman and his partners at S4S USA have teamed up with Hallmark Dental Labs for Canadian distribution and Boyd Research to bring a vast improvement to the Midpoint Stop Anterior Contact Mandibular Advancement Appliance concept. The Morpheus is now available here in North America and our course will include the details of this appliance. You will learn when it is a potential appliance to be considered – as importantly – when it is NOT an appliance of choice. Attendees will send their records (models or scans) and attendees will do actual insertions at all our courses.
It is important to note that this is NOT an industry supported course and all appropriate appliance designs will be discussed and taught.
WHY NOW? HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THERE. HAVE NOT BEEN ANY DATES AVAILABLE RECENTLY?
DR. GLASSMAN realized that the course and post course support was excellent in terms of teaching the science. There is a great concern among those who think that all that is required is that you find a patient with sleep disturbed breathing and give them an appliance that is “easy” to insert. Of course there is more. There is more to understanding who should be treated — and that decision is not simply based on a single metric. It is important to understand how patients can be treated, how to avoid and deal with untoward side effects — how to relate to our medical colleagues, and how to relate to patients in ways that are different than we tend to relate to them in dentistry — and so much more. But even with a high level course and even post course support — something was missing, and the decision was made to hold off additional courses until that missing piece was resolved.
The fact is that when Barry started treating patients with sleep disordered breathing twenty some years go, the medical/dental environment was different. In some ways is was even more challenging; and in some ways it was much easier. It was obvious to Barry that the practice model that had been developed for dentistry needed to be changed to treat pain and dysfunction, and that altered model was in existence when he took his two year sleep residency program in an Allentown hospital system. He recognized he needed to teach that altered model. But even when he did, he realized that now implementation has been problematic for some in dental sleep medicine.
The good news is that the resolution has been found.
There was no doubt that understanding medical billing and being potentially in network with insurance companies became a critical step in providing adequate care for many patients. Dr. Glassman has teamed up with a model that supports a software program and billing system that insures smooth transition to dental sleep medicine, and now is prepared to include this critical portion of the BUSINESS PLAN in his course series.
In addition, Drs. Glassman and Malizia have created a Glassman Seminars Study Forum that provides inexpensive full support for all of your cases in both sleep and pain.
All registrations include:
Pre-Course suggested reading
Access to all literature referenced in the course – and more
A Mandibular Advancement Appliance for your use or demonstration purposes
Hands on experience with exams, bite registrations, and insertion of appliances
Follow up clinical support option (See Study Forum details).
Cancellation Policy: Refunds minus a three hundred dollar fee, can be requested up until four weeks before the first day of the course. (Note: This increased time frame is due to the construction of a custom sleep appliances being made for each participant.) Cancellations after that date will result in a credit of the full fee for a future sleep course.
