If you have begun your DSM journey, this course is where your questions can be answered. The course is designed to catapult your confidence, your success and your expertise!
Discovering the power of dental sleep medicine can ultimately lead to tremendous practice growth and demand. When your community and sleep specialists learn of the potential life saving, health preserving procedures you can now offer, patients may seek your medically recommended CPAP alternatives. Sleep specialists should refer viable candidates for the oral appliance therapy (OAT) candidates that you can now deliver.
Implementation of Dr. Allman’s 7 Appointment OAT scheduling and medical billing protocol should simplify and streamline integration of these viable candidates and productive procedures into your general dental practice, immediately!
Handling medically pre-diagnosed and referred sleep apneic patients requires a different dental office mindset, documentation protocol and medical billing infrastructure. While Dr. Allman advocates fee-for-service practice philosophy, proficiency with medical billing and documentation policy is imperative. It is essential to become fluent with medical coding strategies, documentation verbiage and patient management using a medical model, not a dental model.
Advanced instrumentation, implementation and interpretation useful to dental sleep medicine can be very confusing. In this course, instrumentation that is really needed and what is wasted expense is addressed ONCE AND FOR ALL! You will hear about how to avoid investing in bells and whistles that do not affect clinical outcomes and that may be unappreciated by your medical colleagues.
One of the biggest fears dentists have providing OAT for sleep apneic patients is managing TMJ side effects. In Session 2, advanced OAT side effects troubleshooting will be presented. This course is designed to allow you to gain confidence with OAT and NMD by presenting easy decision models for managing transient complaints effectively and confidently. You will be presented the opportunity to learn some new techniques to add to your tool box and discover a “morning after” appliance that is easily fabricated in-office and customized chair side to minimize occlusal changes and OAT effects! This course present information regarding why the hard bite tabs are not well tolerated and can create problems!
Marketing dental sleep medicine efficiently and effective use of your budget dollars will be addressed. Remember, marketing OAT is not selling; it is educating the potential untreated CPAP intolerant OSA sufferers regarding the option for a viable medically recommended alternative. A common problem with OAT is patient and physician unawareness. It is your responsibility to let referring physicians and unmanaged patients know you exist!
Competent Dental Sleep Medicine Physicians should be able to diagnose and practice to a much higher standard and breadth of expertise, providing advanced procedures collaboratively with medical colleagues. Mouth doctors who continue to educate themselves can become “medically” sought after Dental Sleep Medicine Physicians; The Go-To Dentist!
The objectives of this course are for the participant to be able to:
- Confidently schedule patients with a consistent 7 appointment protocol.
- Understand appointment-by-appointment medical billing strategies.
- Increase team performance and production with DSM.
- Utilize proper medical codes with modifiers.
- Distill and interpret ambulatory study data appropriately.
- Integrate the OAT Insertion Appointment and critical Patient Titration verbiage.
Additional topics addressed:
- Developing consultation, appliance and follow-up DSM fee schedules
- Provide ambulatory sleep studies cost effectively and logically
- How to fabricate and properly index the “Morning After” chew toy
- How to trouble shoot OAT side effects confidently
- How to apply the WHAT, WHY and WHEN of necessary medical reports and communication
- Considering which marketing media may best serve your DSM practice
- Gaining clinical confidence through in-depth case review Q & A with Dr. Allman
Faculty Bio
Dr. Allman is the founder of the TMJ Therapy and Sleep Center of Nevada and is dedicated to the advancement of Dental Sleep Medicine in general dental practice. He is co-founder of Dental Sleep Digest, a magazine dedicated to clinical DSM practice and The OSA: Online Sleep Academy, a monthly interactive webinar series for dentists serious about advanced patient therapy education.
His journey includes 7 Fellowship and Diplomate awards, Senior International Association for Orthodontics Instructor, 5,000 + hours of continuing education, 25 years of dental practice and the loss of his mother due to untreated OSA. Dr. Allman’s mantra is “Airway is King and Tongue Volume is Queen” and it his hope that all dentists become proficient Dental Sleep Physicians.
- Level 1: Dental Sleep Medicine Foundations
Contact an LVI Concierge to register! 888-584-3237
LVI Global 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. LVI Global designates this activity for 24 continuing education credits.
