Summary:

Date: Monday, April 19, 2021
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm (PST)
Speaker: Dr. Steven Olmos
Location: Online Zoom Webinar
Tuition: Members – $20, Non-members – $40
CE: 1.5 CE hours – AGD Subject Code 185 (Appliance Therapy)

Course Objectives:

• Review Prevalence of and Overlapping Symptoms of Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB) and TMD
• Understand Causes of Open-Bite and Jaw Dislocation when using Oral Appliance Therapy
• Understand How Sleep-Related Breathing Disorder Therapies Alter Occlusion
• See Why the Most Recognizable Symptom of SDB is Bruxism

Course Summary:

This program will discuss the prevalence and overlapping symptoms of sleep breathing disorders and temporomandibular disorders. Dr. Olmos will review the causes of open-bite and jaw dislocation when using oral appliance therapy.  Dr. Olmos will also show how sleep related breathing disorder therapies can alter occlusion and why the most recognizable symptom of a sleep breathing disorder is bruxism. Lastly, he will review case examples and appliance selection for each case.

Speaker: 

Dr. Steven Olmos has been in private practice for more than 30 years, with the last 25 years devoted to research and treatment of craniofacial pain and sleep-related breathing disorders.

He obtained his DDS from the University of Southern California School of Dentistry and and is Board Certified in both chronic pain and sleep breathing disorders by the American Board of Craniofacial pain, American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine, and American Board of Craniofacial Pain and Dental Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Olmos is the founder of TMJ & Sleep Therapy Centres International, with over 60 licensed locations in seven countries dedicated exclusively to the diagnosis and treatment of craniofacial pain and sleep disorders. He is the immediate past president of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain and continues to lecture and educate internationally. 

Cancellation & Refund Policy:

Cancellations made by email prior to 4/12/2021 will receive a refund minus a $5 processing fee.
Cancellations made after 4/12/2021 are completely non-refundable.
Transfer of a registration to another name will be considered by email request through 4/12/2021.

* Must be present for the entire webinar for CE credit. Course verification forms will be sent after verified attendance.

Contact information:

Sarah Koyama, [email protected]
SDAGD President

Registration: