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What's Your Number? Diagnosing Obstructive Sleep Apnea in 2019
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This talk will review the methods of diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea, including polysomnography and home sleep apnea testing, controversies about how obstructive sleep apnea is defined, and some thoughts about the future of potential consumer sleep apnea testing.
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Q&A Discussion
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Q&A Session: Kirsch & Kapur
Managing OSA with Oral Appliances: An Overview
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Orthodontists are health care providers and as health care evolves so does our role. While the primary focus remains correcting malocclusions, orthodontists are increasingly receiving requests to deliver oral appliances to patients diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea by their physician. The risks, benefits, scope of care, and treatment needs are critical for the orthodontist to understand prior to incorporating oral appliance treatment into their practice.
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Q&A Discussion
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Q & A Session: Conley & Edwards
OSA in Children: More Than Just Large Tonsils
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The presentation will review the pathophysiology and clinical manifestations of obstructive sleep apnea in children, with particular focus upon how they differ from the adult population. Established, alternative, and promising methods of treatment will be additionally discussed.
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Relevant Useful Tools for Screening for SDB
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Although pediatric sleep disorder breathing is not highly prevalent, early potential identification and proper referral for full assessment by pediatric sleep specialists is important. The impact of timely diagnosis and multidisciplinary management of these cases can have a life changing outcome with significant overall health and craniofacial implications. This presentation will present a few different simple screening options that are available for orthodontist that will help them identify potential cases.
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Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Orthodontic Perspective
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Recent studies have highlighted the importance of the interdisciplinary management of sleep disordered breathing, and the role orthodontists can play in the management of this disease has become better defined. This presentation will re-examine the relationship between sleep disordered breathing and craniofacial growth and development in light of new clinical data. The current evidence related to orthodontic treatment effects on obstructive sleep apnea and the airway, as well as more controversial adjunctive therapies will be discussed.
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Treating Sleep Apnea in the 21st Century: It's Not What You Think
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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children was first described by our group in 1976, on a cohort of 8 patients. The parameters for screening children with sleep disordered breathing have evolved as the field of sleep medicine has advanced.
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Keynote Q&A Discussion
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Q&A Session: Guilleminault
Growth and Development of the Airway: Implications for Children with SDB
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This lecture will focus on the normal postnatal growth and development of the upper airway. Special emphasis will be placed on the changes from age 7 to 17. In addition to changes occurring in the bones that are part of the skeletal boundaries of the airway, an in depth presentation of changes in the soft tissues of the airway will be presented. Special attention will be given to longitudinal changes seen for the hyoid bone, the soft palate and the adenoid mass. The effects on the airway of various orthodontic treatment strategies such as head gear and extractions will be discussed.
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