Your 2020 Summit Package
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Ellie Campbell, DO
A Functional Physician’s Strategy to Address Airway and Oral Health Issues
What you will learn
- The blood tests you need but your doctor probably doesn’t use
- The many chronic diseases linked to periodontal disease
- Alternative treatments to CPAP that many are not aware of
- Why getting a sleep study is an important health evaluation tool, even if you don’t have sleep apnea.
Optimizing Your Sleep for Optimal Health
What you will learn
- Sleep fundamentals: getting the basics right
- Sleep affects brain health, weight and learning ability
Michael Gelb, DDS, MS
Do You Have an Undiagnosed Breathing Disorder that Could Kill You?
What you will learn
- Profound results from opening the airway in children
- ADHD, sleep disorders and neurological development are affected by a poor airway
Stasha Gominak, MD
A Neurologist Examines the Connection Between Vitamin D and Sleep
What you will learn
- How vitamin D affects sleep
- Autoimmune diseases, vitamin D and sleep
- Inflammation and sleep
How Vitamin Imbalance Affects Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Children
What you will learn
- Sleep disorders that underlie neurological disorders
- Abnormal sleep has become the ‘new normal’ for kids
- How ADHD, autism, Asperger’s, etc. relate to sleep deficiency
Shirley Gutkowski, RDH, BSDH
The Shrinking Face and Airway
What you will learn
- How food choices cause epigenetic DNA changes to subsequent generations
- Why nose breathing is essential, AND what a BOLT score is
- Test your own BOLT breathing score during the interview
- Discussion of tongue-tie, results of release, and other issues orofacial myologist can identify
Bill Hang, DDS, MSD
Identifying Sleep Breathing Disorders in Kids: What Every Parent MUST Know
What you will learn
- ADHD is a sleep-breathing problem
- Poor sleep is directly linked to hyperactivity
- Sleep and breathing disorder signs to look for in kids
Straighten Your Face Before You Straighten Your Teeth
What you will learn
- Why dentistry should be at the absolute center of health care
- Why to treat the root cause of abnormal facial growth – before using braces
Why Orthodontists Should Be Treating People and not Teeth
What you will learn
- What is Extraction, Retraction, Regret Syndrome (ERRS)?
- Why a cone beam x-ray (CBCT) is important for correcting airway problems
- Why dentists should take off the white coat, sit down, shut up and listen to their patients.
- Why your UPS man will replace your orthodontist
Alison Hazelbaker, PhD, MS
How Breastfeeding Can Prevent Your Child From Needing Braces or Developing Breathing Problems As a Teen
What you will learn
- How breastfeeding affects your baby’s microbiome
- Why breastfeeding is critical to develop your baby’s facial bones and muscles
- The problem with bottles
Howard Hindin, DDS
Whole Body Perspectives: Acupuncture, TMD, Sleep, Nutrition, and the Nervous System
What you will learn
- The relationship between oral and body health – where acupuncture fits in
- Why a cone beam x-ray (CBCT) is important for correcting airway problems
- Treating root causes for optimal health, not symptoms of disease
Angie Lehman, RDH, COM
Why Understanding Orofacial Myology is Important for Your Child’s Growth and Health
What you will learn
- The definition and importance of proper oral rest posture and its impact on the airway and growth
- Basic knowledge of the natural state of the tongue, and its pivotal role in whole-body health, balance and growth
- How to assess yourself and your child for oral and facial muscular problems, including tongue-tie
Dr. Felix Liao, DDS, MAGD, ABGD, MIABM
Is Your Mouth Choking Your Health?
What you will learn
- What is a holistic mouth, and how does that differ from Impaired Mouth Syndrome?
- How to distinguish between airway-centered vs teeth-and-gum-centered dentists
- What do you mean by the titles of your books Six-Foot Tiger, Three-Foot Cage and Early Sirens?
Dr. Steven Lin
The Dental Diet – An Historical Perspective of Eating for Health
What you will learn
- How good nutrition benefits craniofacial development, bone structure and airway health
- How diet can influence our genes
Pat McBride, PhD, CCSH
The Changing Landscape of Dental Sleep Medicine – What You Need to Know
What you will learn
- What is ‘Airway for All?’
- Why dentistry and medicine must cooperate for patient welfare
- Why sleep and breathing issues must be diagnosed and treated early
Patrick McKeown, BA, MA
Why HOW You Breathe Can Change Your Life
What you will learn
- Simple ways to detect breathing problems in children
- Consequences of mouth breathing on oral and overall health
- Buteyko Breathing techniques and the importance of nasal breathing
Jan Palmer
Navigating Insurance for Sleep Breathing Disorders
What you will learn
- Why sleep disorders should be billed under medical insurance
- Who do you see if you think you have sleep apnea?
- Who do you see if you think you have sleep apnea?
Dr. Steven Park
How Sleep Affects the Brain at Every Age – Warning Signs to Look For
What you will learn
- The importance of pre-natal care – and how premature birth is a risk factor for sleep apnea
- Warning signs parents of infants and young children can look for
- The ONE fight with your teenager that you MUST win The connection between sleep related breathing issues, Alzheimer’s & diabetes
UARS – The Undiagnosed Breathing Disorder
What you will learn
- Is ADHD really undiagnosed sleep apnea?
- What is UARS (upper airway resistance syndrome)?
- How your insomnia could be a sleep-breathing problem
- The problem(s) with CPAP and how enhanced patient support can optimize its benefit
Scott Saunders, DDS
Co-Host
My Lifelong Journey as a Dentist – and Patient – to Overcome Sleep Apnea
What you will learn
- Scott’s personal struggles with undiagnosed sleep apnea since childhood
- How not knowing what was wrong affected his life choices
- Solutions he’s tried – and what’s next for him in his quest
Alyse Shockey, RDH, CHHP, CSOM
Identifying Children with Untreated Sleep Breathing Disorders
What you will learn
- Why kids won’t “Grow out of” airway and sleep problems
- Airway issues are an epidemic in children – mouth breathing is not normal
- Many pediatricians are not trained to properly evaluate
The Link Between Bed Wetting and Airway Distress
What you will learn
- Why kids won’t “Grow out of” airway and sleep problems
- Airway issues are an epidemic in children – mouth breathing is not normal
- Many pediatricians are not trained to properly evaluate
Rebecca Taylor, DDS
A Functional Dentist’s Face and Airway Evaluation Strategy For Children
What you will learn
- Children are at very high risk for sleep apnea
- Red flags of airway problems parents can look for
- The importance of early and appropriate orthodontic intervention
Barbara Tritz RDH, BS, MSB
Tips for Parents to Safeguard Their Children’s Health and Prevent Decay
What you will learn
- Tooth decay is a symptom of something gone wrong in the body – and mouth breathing.
- Why myofunctional therapy is essential when treating tongue-tie
- Why ‘breastfeeding is best feeding’