Formerly Seattle Smile Designs & Bellevue Center for Orthodontics
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Lecture
Schedule
Upcoming Courses
May 15, 16 or Sept 25, 26 2020
---Airway and Skeletal Growth and Development: Etiology and Interventions
Seattle, WA
Course Objectives:
- Understand skeletal growth and development and how airway issues at early ages can alter jaw growth
- How to co-diagnose airway and sleep issues in children and adults. Learn the basics behind sleep apnea including common terminology, how the diagnoses are made, and what this means for your patients
- Learn interdisciplinary approaches to treatment including how and when to work with sleep medicine, ENT, myofunctional therapy, pediatric dentistry, OMFS, and orthodontics
- An in-depth breakdown of treating various skeletal issues including: underbites, overbites, crossbites, and open bites
- Exploring various treatment modalities for children and adults including different expansion protocols
- Discussions surrounding controversial topics such as extractions, open bites, and root resorption
- Hands on MSE module including TAD placement (Maxillary Skeletal Expander by Dr. Won Moon) - Materials supplied by Great Lakes Orthodontics
