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Handouts

S215 Stanton.pdf (4.0 MB)

This course is intended to expand oral and maxillofacial surgeons, evaluation and treatment techniques for patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Rationale and procedures for using oral appliances and other nonsurgical therapies will be presented in detail and surgical treatment options, with an emphasis on skeletal procedures, will be discussed.

1. Identify the underlying pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of patients with objective sleep apnea;
2. Explain the rationale for and apply appropriate techniques for oral appliance therapy in the treatment of mild to moderate/severe sleep apnea and snoring; and
3. Discuss controversies and indications for patients who require surgical upper airway reconstruction, ie, UPPP, genioglossus advancement, maxillomandibular advancement and combined procedures.