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  The Metz Center for Sleep Dentistry                                                                              February 2017
Just Released:   Complete Program of Events 
April 7 & 8, 2017 Step Up to Sleep Dentistry Continuum

Our Goal:
Helping dentistry and medicine grow together, creating the best
possible outcome for our patients! 

Advanced Sleep Dentistry Track will feature the following courses:
  1. Key Points Everyone Needs to Know:  Dr. James Metz
  2. High Resolution Pulse Oximetry:  Dr. James Metz
  3. Understand the Breathing Patterns of OSA: Dr. David White  
  4. What the Physician Expects:  Margaret Lind, CNP, OSU
  5. Normalizing Breathing Volume & Speed in Sleep Disordered Breathing: 
    Patrick McKeown, MB, MA(TCD), Dip BM (Prof KP Bueyko), FBPI
  6. Mouth Breathing and OSA:  Dr. Frank Seaman
  7. My Personal Traveled Road:  Kris Davies, Patient, OSU Communications Student
  8. The Stanford Surgery Protocol & The Most Up-to-Date Research Findings: 
    Dr. Stanley Yung-Chuan Liu
  9. Standard of Care in a Dental Sleep Medicine Practice and Informed Consent: 
    Dr. Ken Berley
  10. Airway Changes in Young Patients with & without Treatment:  Dr. Gene Williamson
  11. Orthodontics & Oral Cavity Volume in the Young & Adolescent: Dr. Nelson Diers
  12. Sophisticated Orthodontics With Complete Restoration:  Dr. Brian Vence & Dr. Thomas Wilcko
Enjoy a Friday Evening Reception Meet & Greet: Beverages & Heavy Appetizers


View the complete Program of Events
Questions: Contact Angie at 614-252-4444 or [email protected] for more information.


Featured Speakers: 

From left:  Stanley Yung-Chuan Liu, MD, DDS; Patrick McKeown, MB, MA(TCD), Dip BM (Prof KP Bueyko), FBPI; and David White, MD




Introductory Sleep Dentistry Track will feature the following courses:
  1. Key Points Everyone Needs to Know:  Dr. James Metz
  2. High Resolution Pulse Oximetry:  Dr. James Metz
  3. Successful Sleep Dentistry:  Dr. James Blank
  4. The Psychology Of the OSA Patient:  Pat McBride, BA, RDA, CCSH
  5. What the Physician Expects:  Margaret Lind CNP, OSU
  6. Normalizing Breathing Volume and Speed in Sleep Disordered Breathing:
    Patrick McKeown, MB, MA(TCD), Dip BM (Prof KP Bueyko), FBPI
  7. Mouth Breathing and OSA:  Dr. Frank Seaman
  8. My Personal Traveled Road:  Kris Davies, Patient, OSU Communications Student
  9. Successful Sleep Dentistry Part 2:  Dr. James Blank
  10. Roles: The Sleep Treatment Coordinator: Chris Takacs, Sleep & TMD Tx. Coordinator
  11. Standard of Care in a Dental Sleep Medicine Practice and Informed Consent: 
    Dr. Ken Berley
  12. Roles: The Hygienist & Predeterminations for Oral Appliances:  Megan Bacome, RDH
  13. Pulse Oximetry:  Chris Takacs, Sleep & TMD Tx. Coordinator
  14. Roles: Laboratory - Avoiding Problems With The Oral Appliance:  Todd Bacome,  Manager & Technician, The Metz Laboratory
  15. Sophisticated Orthodontics With Complete Restoration:  Dr. Brian Vence & Dr. Tom Wilcko
Enjoy a Friday Evening Reception Meet & Greet: Beverages & Heavy Appetizers

View the complete Program of Events
Questions:  Contact Angie at 614-252-4444 or [email protected] for more information.
Kostrzewa-Janicka J, Śliwiński P, et al.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2017;944:63-71

A combination of abnormal anatomy and physiology of the upper airway can produce its repetitive narrowing during sleep, resulting in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Treatment of sleep-breathing disorder ranges from lifestyle modifications, upper airway surgery, continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to...
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May 19th to 24th in Washington, D.C. 
 
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Our upcoming Featured Speaker, Dr. David White, is the author of this month's article.  
David P. White, American Journal of Respiratory Cell & Molecular Biology

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), in the medical scheme of things, is a relatively new disorder and has barely been in the medical literature for the last 100 years. Thus, virtually everything we know about its pathogenesis has been discovered over this time frame.

Since London physician, W. H. BroadbentBroadbent's original description of an individual struggling to breathe during sleep in 1877, we have made considerable progress in our understanding of the pathogenesis of OSA. However, treatments for this disorder remain ...
Registration is Open for both of our 2017 Step Up to Advanced Sleep Dentistry Continuum sessions:
 
October 20 & 21, 2017: Download this course application

Dentists and their staff play a vital role in the team approach to the screening and treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea - a condition that affects as many as 100 million Americans and their families.

Contact Angie at 614-252-4444 or [email protected] for more information.

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Case Study Archives
Painful Temporomandibular Disorders and Central Sensitization
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Efficacy of Maxillomandibular Advancement Examined with Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy & Computational Fluid Dynamics Airflow Modeling
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Mandibular Advancement Device as a Comparable Treatment to Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Positional Obstructive Sleep Apnea
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Signs and Symptoms of Temporomandibular Disorders in Women & Men
Upper-airway Collapsibility and Loop Gain Predict the Response to Oral Appliance Therapy in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients
Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cancer: Epidemiologic Links and Theoretical Biological Constructs
Association between Obstructive Sleep Apnea andCancer Incidence in a Large Multicenter Spanish Cohort
Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials of Oral Mandibular Advancement Devices and Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Obstructive Sleep Apnea-hypopnea
Impact of Sleep-Disordered Breathing on Long-Term Outcomes in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Who Have Undergone Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
Headache Attributed to Masticatory Myofascial Pain
The effect of sex and age on the comorbidity burden of OSA: an observational analysis from a large nationwide US health claims database.
Novel Porous Oral Patches for Patients with Mild Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Mouth Breathing
Determinants of Objective Compliance During Oral Appliance Therapy in Patients With Sleep-Related Disordered Breathing: A Prospective Clinical Trial
Combination Therapy TMD/OSA
a case study by Dr. James Metz
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