Hands-on Educational Modules

March 1-2, 2019

Breakfast 7:30 AM, Course 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM both days.

Osteopathic Center San Diego, 3706 Ruffin Rd.
San Diego, CA US 92123 

It is time to bring Osteopathy and Dentistry together for the benefit of Adults and Children as Dr. Viola Frymann strived to bring together. Dr. Frymann was aware of the dentists utilizing mechanical forces in that mouth without considering the integration of the rest of the body. She saw that a coordinated effort by educating both profession of each other's supportive role would create an integrated team that is stronger together than standing aloe against each other. Dr. Frymann regularly focused on the critical role of the oral facial structures in overall healing process for each individual. It had been so important that she also incorporated it into her 40 hour cranial course. The course Expanding the Integrative Team Approach to Sleep Disturbances will further expand on the critical role of the oral facial structures in the overall healing process of individuals.  Dentistry has the potential to provide the appropriate mechanical support to allow each osteopathic treatments to build with recovery. Dentists have in the past approached sleep in a mechanical model with using appliances for the teeth and jaw without fully understanding its effect on the rest of the body. Osteopaths treat without realizing the different role dental support can have for patient's forward progress of healing. This course will demonstrate how an Osteopathy and Dentistry as a team effort can help with the global effects of sleep disorder. 

All participants will be instructed on the  clinical implementation and interpretation of both the GemPro and SleepImage technologies as an invaluable asset in gaining a biometric assessment to enhance patient care.

This course is unlike any out there, and for good reason. Dr. Nordstrom started looking at sleep seriously in 1984, after some of his adult ALF patients said they didn’t want to ‘graduate’ from their ALF/twin-block appliances because they slept so much better with them. He went on to invent and put into public domain the buccal wing / minimal tongue encroachment design that was incorporated into SomnoDent, Dorsal, MicrO2 Prosomnus, etc. Since those early days, he has seen gradually poorer quality alveolar bone and periodontium, more postural laxity, more somato-emotional problems in new or referred (basket case) patients… all serving to slow or compromise what would normally be great dental orthopedic treatment plans.

The answer is not always a new appliance and bringing the mandible forward, further complicating orthodontic/orthopedic care, but in really understanding sleep (beyond airway). This course addresses the gaps as well as introducing straightforward, science-based diagnostics and techniques that will complement your practice, while honoring the healing principles of osteopathy.

Chronic pain, neurodegenerative disease, diabetes, autoimmune disease, and suboptimal performance (physically and mentally) are all inextricably tied to sleep, and this course goes beyond the current trendy “airway model” to create a more comprehensive understanding of the factors that both lead to and resolve poor quality sleep (from child through adult).
 

The course will teach you how to use familiar techniques and instrumentation in new ways (with minimal office burden) to identify and intercept these problems before they manifest as childhood diabetes, compulsive behaviors, chronic pain, fatigue, etc. It will also teach you (and ultimately your staff) how to interactively monitor and dynamically facilitate recovery, and will introduce coding for insurance, as well as other support networks.
 

Physicians are overworked, yet there is the constant frustration of knowing that many patients are not responding or recovering as anticipated. Receiving science-based and meaningful new/unique answers, as well as tools to dramatically improve outcomes lifts this burden and infuses new energy into the challenges of modern medical practice.

 “This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE) through the joint program provider approval of ALF InterFACE Academy and Osteopathy's Promise to Children. The (approved program provider) is approved for awarding FAGD/MAGD credit.”