Sleep Medicine and General Dentistry
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General Dentists
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Free
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2 CE Credits
Credits -
Self-Instructional
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Feb 17, 2021
Released -
Feb 17, 2024
Expires
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Course Description
In this 2-hour video, Dr. Santucci brings to light not only the need to evaluate your patients for disturbed sleep patterns but offer the basic information to add to your existing evaluation process for all patients of record. As dentistry expands its vision of care to encompass the total patient, sleep is definitely in the crosshairs.
Learning Objectives
- 40 million Americans both children and adults suffer from disturbed sleep, how to detect them in your practice
- Explore the effect on total body health as a result of the various comorbidities resulting from disturbed sleep and how it may affect your general dentistry
- Understand why a child experiencing ADHD symptoms just may be the result of disturbed sleep
- Explore the recent ADA resolution regarding your office's role regarding the detection, referral or treatment regarding this new paradigm of total patient care
Course Details
- Course Fee: Free
- Credits: Catapult Education designates this continuing education activity for 2 credits
- Method: Self-Instructional
- Audience: General Dentists
- AGD Subject Code: 730
Course contents
Meet the instructor
Gene Santucci, DDS
Dr. Gene Santucci is an Associate Professor in the Department of Preventive and Restorative Dentistry at the University of the Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry, San Francisco, CA where he is co-director of the Dental Sleep Mini-Residency Program, Content Coordinator for Sleep Medicine. He also holds a Masters Degree in Educational Psychology and Counseling.
Dr. Santucci has presented nationally and internationally on the topics of Dental Sleep Medicine, ADHD in Children and Sleep Related Disorders, Occlusion, Aesthetics, Temporomandibular Disorders, Photography, Functional Anatomy of the Gnathostomatic System and the Fabrication and Delivery of Night Guards. He is a published author contributing to numerous articles in refereed journals and abstracts along with a Task Force Report regarding sleep medicine, course content in dental education. His text book contributions include: Patient Examinations in an Esthetic Dentistry Practice, Headache and Facial Pain.
Dr. Santucci has been awarded membership in the following associations: Fellow, American College of Dentists, Fellow, Pierre Fauchard Academy, Diplomate, American Academy of Integrated Pain Management, American Dental Educators Association, American Academy of Sleep Medicine, American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, California Sleep Society, American Association of Oral Systemic Health, American Dental and California Dental Associations. He is also a member of Catapult Education and reviews dental products for them.
Dr. Santucci’s goal is to encourage all dental professionals to become the first line of defense regarding the evaluation, referral and treatment for the various types of sleep disturbances from snoring to obstructive sleep apnea in children and adults.
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