TAMPA, FL, May 23, 2015 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dental Sleep Medicine is a rapidly growing area of dentistry. About 40 million people have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and less than 10 percent of those have been have been diagnosed. It is highly likely many of these at-risk people are in currently dental patients that would immensely benefit from oral appliance therapy, an alternative to the commonly prescribed CPAP therapy.
The number of dentists entering Dental Sleep Medicine is growing significantly as evidenced from membership statistics of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM). Due to the increasing need for services, there is also a rapidly growing number of dental sleep medicine educational opportunities for practitioners.
Dental Sleep Solutions will be hosting a dental sleep medicine continuing education course in Little Rock, Arkansas in conjunction with Green Dental Laboratories, GoGo Billing, and Snap Diagnostics. This unique course will provide dentists with the tools to effectively implement dental sleep medicine into their practice from start to finish. The course is not full of abstracts or academia, but instead leads dentists through a step-by-step process to make dental sleep medicine a practical and significant profit center, while saving lives.
Dr. Yatros has been practicing dental sleep medicine for over a dozen years and is a well-respected international lecturer in the field of sleep-disordered breathing and dental sleep medicine. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM), past president of the Manatee Dental Society and is an Affiliate Assistant Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine with the University of South Florida, College of Medicine. Dr. Yatros is co-founder of Dental Sleep Solutions and the DS3 Software and Implementation System.
Green Dental Laboratories is located in Heber Springs, AR and has been a division of National Dentex Corporation, the largest family of dental laboratories in the country, since 2005. Green Lab continues to work diligently to discover, understand, utilize and assess all the needs of practitioners within the dental industry. Joe West, Green Lab's Marketing Coordinator said, "We recognize the growing need for oral appliance therapy to treat the sleep apnea. We are proud to offer the TAP 3 Elite, EMA, & ClearDream devices to our dentist clients so they can better address the needs of all their patients."
GoGo Billing is the country's premier dental sleep medicine billing company. Principals, Dr. Stacey Layman and Lesia Crawford, have provided expert billing services and payer credentialing for hundreds of dental sleep medicine practitioners.
Snap Diagnostics provides dental and medical offices across the U.S. with efficient, low cost home sleep testing solutions for patients suspected of having sleep disordered breathing.
To register or for more information, please contact Staci Giuffrida at 877.95.SNORE.
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