Friday, March 13, 2020
8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
9:00 – 4:00 Lecture and Lunch served
TOPIC: The ADA Airway Mandate…RU Prepared or Clueless?
VENUE: Edina Country Club, 5100 Wooddale Ave, Edina
Course Synopsis: Even if you don’t actually treat sleep and breathing disorders, the ADA has mandated that dentists screen for these issues and appropriately refer patients. Are you prepared to do this or are you clueless as to the reasons patients have these issues and how they can be treated? An overview of causes of sleep and breathing disorders and what can be done for patients of all ages will be discussed.
Course Outline:
I. Introduction to Sleep and Breathing Disorders
II. Recognizing and Treating Sleep and Breathing Disorders in Children
A. Tongue Tie
B. Myofunctional Therapy
C. Arch Development
D. Orthotropics®
III. Recognizing and Treating Sleep and Breathing Disorders in Adolescents
A. When is it Safe to Retract?
B. But I’ll Push the Teeth Off the Bone Support!
C. Is a Class I Occlusion Really That Important?
IV. Recognizing and Treating Sleep and Breathing Disorder in Adults
A. UARS and OSA-What’s the Difference
B. You Can’t Expand Your Way Out of an Anterior-Posterior Problem
C. Re-opening Extraction Spaces
D. When is Surgery Appropriate?
Our Presenter:
Dr. Hang is a graduate of the University of Illinois College of Dentistry and the University of Minnesota Orthodontic program where he briefly taught orthodontics. He then established a very traditional orthodontic practice in rural Vermont. After about seven years he became dissatisfied with the faces the traditional orthodontic approach produced and embarked on a continuing education journey that ultimately took him to 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
In the process he moved to Southern California and developed a truly unique orthodontic practice with strong emphasis on facial esthetics achieved with innovative early treatment and adult treatment, but also became aware of the significant positive affect some of his treatments were having on the airway. This opened up a whole new aspect of orthodontics – maximizing the airway for ALL orthodontic patients and specifically treating patients with SDB (sleep disordered breathing) or OSA (obstructive sleep apnea).
Having been re-opening previous extraction spaces since 1989, Dr Hang recognized a syndrome he named Extraction Retraction Regret Syndrome™ or E.R.R.S.™
Dr. Hang’s approach to orthodontics is a result of blending the best ideas from the best practitioners and adding his own unique experiences. He has spoken on orthodontics, facial esthetics and airway locally, nationally, and internationally and appeared on the British equivalent of “Sixty Minutes”. He was the Founding President of the North American Association of Facial Orthotropics®, is a board member of the American Association of Physiological Medicine and Dentistry, and is an advisor to the Academy of Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy.