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8 lessons (5h 20min)

English

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Explore the intersection of myofunctional therapy and sleep medicine, focusing on the diagnosis, treatment, and interdisciplinary management of sleep-related breathing disorders!

The course features expert-led sessions covering a range of topics, including:

– Obstructive sleep apnea in children
– Oral appliance therapy and sleep-disordered breathing
– Early diagnosis and intervention in pediatric dysphagia
– The relationship between oral habits, orthodontic outcomes, and orofacial pain.

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Lesson 1.Obstructive Sleep Apnea: It’s No Longer Just a Problem for Adults

– Efficacy of oral appliances in OSA treatment
– Sleep-disordered breathing
– Perinatal and developmental effects of OSA
– Bone morphology and pediatric OSA.

Lesson 2.Tongue Posture, Ankyloglossia, and Craniofacial Structure

– Tongue tie and sleep-disordered breathing
– The ideal tongue position
– Review of radiology and decision-making
– Myofunctional: evaluation and treatment plan
– Frenotomy, frenectomy, frenuloplasty
– Case studies and treatment plan evaluation.

Lesson 3.Optimizing Oral Health in Early Childhood: Risk Assessment

– What metrics exist for determining oral health
– Mouth breathing: signs you should be watching out for
– Pediatric sleep apnea and malocclusion
– Early childhood malocclusion (under age 72 months): diagnosis.

Lesson 4.Sleep State Development in Infancy

– Physiology of obstructive sleep apnea in infancy and children
– The importance of early diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
– Impact of sleep state development on cognitive and physical growth.

Lesson 5.The Effect of Airway Pressure

– Diagnosis of sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD)
– Oral appliance therapy
– Diagnosis of deficient growth
– Dentist monitoring therapy.

Lesson 6.Myofunctional Therapy and Neuromuscular Re-Education

– Define oral myofunctional therapy (OMT)
– How can we help orthodontists become more successful?
– How habits may affect orthodontic results
– The big picture: Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), orthodontic relapse, and orofacial pain.

Lesson 7.Neuroscience for Treating Orofacial Disorders

– Different ways to improve swallowing
– New approaches to restore nasal breathing and myofunctional balance
– Physiological and biomechanical changes in the brain.

Lesson 8.Pediatric Dysphagia and the Urgency for Early Intervention

– Functional and structural presentation in developing children
– The interrelation between forces of compensated swallowing and the development of the palatal arch
– Clinical effects of posterior and anterior tongue-tie.

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