Advanced Course in Dental Sleep Medicine
Take DSM to the Next Level: Prepare for Credentialing your Practice, Increase Production & Improve Patient Care
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The Next Step in Implementing Dental Sleep Medicine: This two day advanced course empowers dentists and their teams to overcome clinical and administrative obstacles to incorporating sleep apnea therapy into their practice. Taught by credentialed industry leaders that will utilize unique teaching tools to ensure attendees gain the skills needed to manage challenges that practices may experience when treating obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
Course Content:
- Dental Sleep Medicine pre-test
- New developments in OSA, review of protocols
- The importance of setting patient expectations from the first meeting
- Understanding the difference between dental and medical models
- Link between TMD, sleep bruxism, and SBD
- In-depth review of sleep stages, disorders, and evaluations of a sleep study for OAT
- Delivering care: dentists role, assistants duties, addressing common problems
- Understanding and managing side effects of OAT
- Combining therapies such as nasal stents, GERD meds, oral exercise, and CPAP
- Building strong physician/sleep lab referral networks
- Outside the box marketing ideas
- Dental Sleep Medicine post-test, Q&A
- Medical Billing Sessions
- In-depth medical billing - best practices for getting paid by medical insurance
- Advanced medical billing – tips and strategies for getting paid quicker and easier
- Medicare guidelines and protocol
- Documentation for medical billing in a dental office
How is this course different? This seminar is tailored for the practice that already has experience treating sleep apnea with oral appliance therapy. By sharing new research in dental sleep medicine, reviewing complex cases, and covering how to overcome specific hurdles, the course is designed to take the experienced practice to the next level. In addition, team members will become more efficient with Rose Nierman's breakout sessions on medical billing & front office protocols.
Sleep Supply Kit Including Your Own Custom Appliance: Order the Sleep Supply Kit for a unique opportunity to experience the oral appliance delivery process of industry experts first hand and save on essential DSM resources!
Sleep Supply Kit: $395 (up to $700 value)
- Custom Appliance (choose ResMed Narval, EMA, Map T, Herbst or Dorsal Device)
- George Gauge
- 4 Bite forks
- PVS Impression material
- Bite registration material
- Neck Tape Measure
- Sample Patient Sleep Questionnaire Forms
- Sample Sleep Patient Exam Forms
- Medical Claim Forms (CMS 1500 02/12)
*Register a minimum of 4 weeks prior to the course to allow the laboratory proper time to fabricate and ship the appliance to the course. If you are not able to register 4 weeks prior, you can have your appliance delivered to your office after the course.
Reserve your seat today and discover why so many practices are praising this as a must-have seminar in their dental sleep medicine education.
16 CE Credits Available
Pricing:
- $1495 – 1st Attendee
- $795 – Team Member
- $2495 - Dentist + 2 Team Members
This seminar is part of an
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PACEProgram Provider FAGD/MAGD
Credit Approval does not imply
acceptance bya state of provincial
board of dentistry or AGD endorsement.
8/1/2012 to 7/31/2016
Nierman Practice Management is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education.ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.
Nierman Practice Management designates this activity for 16 continuing education credits.
Refund and Cancellation Policies: Cancellations are to be made in writing. All paid registration fees will be refunded at 100% for cancellations received 14 days prior to start of course. An assessment fee of $250.00 will be taken for cancellations received after this time. This course provider reserves the right to cancel a course or to provide a substitute instructor if conditions warrant. All registration fees will be returned if the course is cancelled.