Comprehensive Sleep Medicine Course
Serves as Ideal Introduction to Dental Sleep Medicine with Advanced Breakouts for Experience Pracitioners
PRESENTED BY DEDICATED SLEEP that includes an introduction to the use of Dedicated Sleep as
a medical specialty company to help you provide in network quality services for your patients!
Current Science including Pathophysiology of OSA and Mechanics of Oral Appliance Therapy
Screening and Improved Referral Strategies
All important soft skills in terms of consultations and more: How to eliminate “Fear of Failure” by setting appropriate expectations
Hands on Bite Registrations and Examinations
An Unparalleled Business Plan for Implementation
Look for Date to Be announced Soon!
Following your reservation, you will receive additional information via email. You will be given a date for a Pre Course Zoom meeting, a link for pre course literature, as well as literature that is relevant to the course and can provide resource material for you.
Hands-On Dental Sleep Medicine
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.
In 2024 Dr. Glassman was named Director of Education of Dedicated Sleep. In 2010, Dr. Glassman wrote a paper entitled “The Hidden Challenges of Dental Sleep Medicine.” This paper highlighted the obstacles faced by the dental profession working a a “broken system” attempting to provide medical treatment in a dental setting. This course provides the evidence based science and practical approaches for success in dental sleep medicine, and introduces the attendees to Dedicated Sleep, demonstrating how having the strength of a powerful, well versed medical specialty company working as our “back office” can help lead to more success with more patients providing high quality care. Dr. Glassman teaches patient centric concepts - and the leadership at Dedicated Sleep founded the company with the same ideals.
So, therefore, NOW the two-day course has returned – more practical and yet evidence based than ever before.
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 Dedicated Sleep 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
Hands on experience with exams, bite registrations.
Demonstration of History taking, examinations, and appliance insertions
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.
Instructor: Barry Glassman, DMD, DABDSM. DABCFP, FICCMO,
Dr. Glassman is well known for his teaching of orofacial pain and joint dysfunction courses as well as dental sleep medicine, which he has been teaching over fifteen years. His unique and entertaining style as well as the creation of a safe educational environment helps make his courses ideal for maximum learning. This course is deal either as one’s first course or as a refresher course for the doctor and key staff.
Dr Barry Glassman
Barry Glassman, DMD, received his dental degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1973. He maintained a private practice in Allentown, Pennsylvania limited to chronic pain management, head and facial pain, temporomandibular joint dysfunction, and dental sleep medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain, a Fellow of the International College of Craniomandibular Orthopedics, a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International, and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Pain Management. He was on staff at the Lehigh Valley Hospital where he served as a resident instructor of Craniomandibular Dysfunctions and Sleep Disorders. He is a Diplomate of the Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and is Board Certified in Dental Sleep Medicine. He continues to consult for the Allentown Sleep and Pain Center, teach both sleep and TMD and Bruxism courses for General Dentistry, and serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Therapeutic Solutions, International. He was an adjunct professor at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine Craniofacial Pain Department. Dr. Glassman is the founder of the year-long Diplomate Program for the International Academy of Sleep. He continues to mentor individual dentists and physicians toward the goal of an improved Sleep Medicine model encouraging a patient centric system. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and study clubs internationally.
This course has been specifically designed to introduce dental sleep medicine concepts in an entertaining, honest, and straightforward fashion using evidenced based concepts and emphasizing the model change required to successfully implement these concepts into a general dental practice.
Many commercial organizations are bombarding dentists with information about the potential role of dentistry is sleep medicine; unfortunately, only a fraction of those who take the courses that are consequently to learn sleep medicine have ever successfully added these concepts to their general practice. This course will teach not only the concepts of sleep medicine but emphasize the challenges for the general dentist that need to be addressed successfully to benefit help your patients with sleep disturbed breathing conditions.
This evidenced based course will review the current lit from physiology of oral appliances to the role of oral appliance therapy and CPAP in sleep medicine. All literature references will be made available to all attendees! While the emphasis of the course is a deep dive into the science of sleep medicine, Dr. Glassman will weave the traditional methods of the business of dental sleep medicine with the IAOS approach.
The Model Change Required to move from dentistry to dental sleep medicine
The Challenges of Dental Sleep Medicine – Dental Myth Busting
History and Epidemiology of sleep medicine and dental sleep medicine
Consequences of Sleep Disturbed Breathing
Sleep Medicine principles including normal sleep staging
The continuum of Sleep Disturbed Breathing
Non-obstructive sleep disorders
Pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea
Screening Tools/ Diagnostic Testing for OSA – Review of Pediatric OS
The use of Home Sleep Testing and polysomnograms
The changing role of AHI in diagnosis
History Taking, the clinical exam, and patient consultation
Oral appliance Therapy including physiology and appliance choices, Documentation/Patient Flow/Physician contact with each visit
Supportive therapy options: The role of nasal breathing, positional therapy, treatment of restless leg syndrome, myofunctional therapy, etc.
Non-OAT treatment options (Positive pressure, surgery,)
Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Appliance Complications
Defining, preventing, and treating Occlusal Dysesthesia
Parasomnias and Movement Disorders with special emphasis on bruxism
TMD for the general dentist including parafunctional control
Patient Communication Skills as well as Keys to communicating with physicians. Practice management: The Four Agreements
Basic Sleep principles, including both the physiology of sleep and the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea, will be taught in detail. A short history of the disorder and a section on epidemiology is included. Treatment alternatives will be reviewed, and of course oral appliance therapy will be taught in detail. A critically important section on bruxism, a movement disorder of sleep, as well as a section on dealing with the temporomandibular joint issues and other comorbidities of oral appliance therapy including the “dreaded” occlusal changes, will emphasize the difference between fact and fiction.
The “soft skills” taught at this course are, frankly, as valuable as the evidenced based education into the science of sleep. An honest look at appliance therapy results allows the practitioner to appropriately set patient and physician expectations, a key to the success of any DSM practice
Upon completion of the course, attendees will be able to:
Comprehend the basic science of sleep medicine.
Understand the role of oral appliance therapy in sleep medicine and be prepared to initiate oral appliance therapy in your treatment regimen.
Effectively screen patients for sleep disturbed breathing.
Understand the importance of diagnosis and why snoring only appliances without diagnosis are contraindicated.
Appreciate the importance of coordinated care with our medical colleagues and gain the skills needed to coordinate care for your mutual patients.
Gain a new appreciation for when and why occlusion matters and how that determines the design of bruxism appliances.
Master appropriate screening and diagnostic procedures and alternatives for increased access to care.
Document diagnosis and treatment appropriately for “Track 1 and Track 2 patients.”
Increase your referral pattern beyond your own patients.
Gain sufficient knowledge of the types of appliances that are available as well as being prepared to choose an appliance and effectively prescribe and manage the chosen appliance.
Gain the skills required to diagnose the potential untoward effects of oral appliance therapy and treat them accordingly.
Gain an appreciation for evidenced based therapy and have that evidence at your fingertips for your reference as needed
Appropriately apply the risk/benefit quotient when treating patients in relationship to any occlusal changes or the other untoward effects that may occur.
Appreciate the epidemiology of sleep medicine and use that evidence in treatment decision making
Return to the office with confidence in one’s knowledge not only in sleep disturbed breathing, but in issues that involve occlusion and joint dysfunction.
7-8 Full Breakfast and Registration
8-9 Introduction: Goals of the Course, Dental Model vs. Medical model Outlining and defeating myths The Challenges of Dental Sleep Medicine
9- 10 Epidemiology and Co-Morbidities: Current Lit Review of Epidemiology. Cardiovascular disorder physiology/Stroke/Diabetes/Hypersomnolence. Etc.
10:15 – 10:30 Break
10:30 – 12: Basic Sleep Medicine. Sleep Staging: PSG’s for diagnosis. Introduction to OSA Definitions and Pathophysiology. AHI Discussion - Pediatric OSA
12 – 12:45: LUNCH
12:45 – 1:30 Screening Tools in the Dental Office: Screening Tool Options Consultations (Hygiene and Dr.). The History and Clinical Exam
1:30 – 2: Oral Appliance Therapy including Physiology of OAT
2– 4 Oral Appliances: Indication for Oral Appliance Contraindications for Oral Appliance Review of Alternative Appliances Available Insertion and Follow up Visits
4 – 4:30 Two Video Cases with OAT - The Four Agreements
4:30 – 5:30. Alternative Treatments: CPAP, BiPAP, Auto-PAP, Inspire, Surgery, laser therapy, ExCite, Supportive Therapies: Position, Nasal, etc.
7:00. Social Event — Wine and Appetizers — Beachside Condo
6:45 - 7:30. Full Breakfast and Registration
7:30 – 9:00Complications of OAT - Occlusal Dysesthesia
9:00 – 9:30 HST’s for Diagnosis and Titration.
9:30 – 10:30. Documentation/Patient Flow.
10:30 – 10:45: Break
10:45 – 12 Bruxism and Sleep
12:00 - 12:45. Lunch
1:00. - 5:30 Head to Private Office in Palm Bay, Florida
Exams - Bite Registrations - Appliance Insertions
The course will be held at the beachside Hilton DoubleTree in Melbourne, Fl.
The excellent King Suite or Queen Suite ocean view rooms are now available. Keep in mind that the all important hands-on portion of the course will go until 5 PM on Saturday. Many find it best to stay over Saturday night and return home Sunday. You may extend your stay using this group rate.
If you have any questions or issues with your reservations, please call Bari Stevenson, our direct contact at the hotel, on her direct line: 321-951-4889
