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Volume 4, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Oral Hyg Health
ISSN: 2332-0702 JOHH, an open access journal
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Dental Medicine 2016
August 08-10, 2016
conferenceseries.com
August 08-10, 2016 Toronto, Canada
13th International Conference and Exhibition on
Dental Medicine
The successful treatment of obstructive sleep apnea in the dental office
John Nadeau
Sleep Group Solutions, USA
The presentation will be highlighted with the following topics: 1) Introduction to sleep – sleep stages, disorders; 2) Sleep apnea
prevalence – Why is there a need for treatment? 3) Sleep apnea symptoms/clinical issues; 4) Treating snoring and sleep apnea
in a dental office – protocol review; 5) Patient education; addressing key issues and getting a snoring patient to convert to a sleep
apnea treatment case; 6) Prepare overnight home sleep study for select for the course attendees; 7) Pharyngometer/Rhinometer;
8) Working with sleep physicians; 9) Home sleep tests; 10) Dental sleep medicine, a step-by-step protocol flow chart; 11) Working
with popular oral appliances like the TAP, Respire, EMA, SilentNight and more; 12) Appliance review – Pro’s and con’s of all of the
major sleep appliances; 13) Case presentations; 14) Medical insurance billing; 15) Review of the latest codes, fees, procedures and
recommendations from SGS experts who are doing this daily.
Biography
John Nadeau, Vice-president of Sleep Group Solutions has been actively involved in Dental Sleep Medicine since 2002. He has worked with several hundred
dentists in the field and helped many of them get started with sleep in their own practices. An expert on airway acoustic imaging and home sleep testing, he
authored the SGS protocol manual detailing the steps-by-step process in taking a patient from initial screening through diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. His
passion for dental sleep medicine comes strongly in his lectures and he has been an invited guest instructor at many dental meetings and teaching facilities across
North America.
John Nadeau, J Oral Hyg Health 2016, 4:3 (Suppl)