Dental Sleep Medicine Insider August 2016 | Page 3

Jason Tierney Editor-in-chief SLEEPING WITH THE EDITOR T here The Dental Sleep Medicine Insider [email protected] 314-882-7746 There are innumerable opportunities for Dental Sleep Medicine educatino... even more ubiquitous than Pokemon Go... But... you can’t “catch ‘em all!” So what do you do? Attend the 2017 North American Dental Sleep Medicine Symposium. are innumerable opportunities for Dental Sleep Medicine (DSM) education today. As recently as five years ago, if you lived in a major metropolitan area, there might be one or two events in your area each year. If you weren’t in a major metropolis, you were relegated to booking flights and hotels for you… and your team. It was a costly endeavor to which you had to be committed. Better hope it’s a great course. In recent years, the rapid emergence of DSM awareness has also created a DSM CE boom. From evening study club presentations and weekend courses to webinars and mini-residencies, CE opportunities on this topic are even more ubiquitous than Pokemon Go. There are some great courses out there presented by Jamison Spencer, Kent Smith, Gy Yatros, Erin Elliott, and others, but unlike Pokemon, you can’t “catch ‘em all!” So what do you do? How do you ensure that your time and money are well spent? Consider what you want out of the CE opportunity. Most of the time, the overriding theme that dentists share with me is that they’re seeking practical CE to help implement and grow the dental sleep portion of the practice. Does that apply to you? Are you seeking information about any of the following topics? • What are indications & contraindications for use for the most popular dental devices? • How can you take accurate records to minimize device delivery chair-time? • When should you use hybrid PAP-OAT therapy? • How do you identify pediatric OSA patients and what is the treatment pathway? • When and how should you use Home Sleep Testing? • What should you do about Medicare? Opt in? Opt out? Accept assignment of benefits? • How can you get your team to become DSM Superheroes and drive explosive growth in this facet of your practice? What if you could actually receive all of this information in one place? What if that place was at a beautiful beachfront resort in the winter? Full disclosure here; I’m working with my colleagues to host this event. Why? Because it’s necessary. I’ve spoken with too many dentists that attend large national meetings and feel that they’re rife with interesting yet impractical academia. I’ve spoken with too many dentists that attend meetings that are merely thinly veiled sales programs masquerading as education. This meeting defies both of those. The North American Dental Sleep Medicine Symposium’s speaker roster consists entirely of dentists that have made DSM a primary, if not singular, focus of their practices. They will share the tools, tips, and techniques that have made them successful. Does this appeal to you? That’s what I thought. Be there.