Pediatric Airway and Sleep Disorder Breathing

Children in today's society experience a myriad of signs and symptoms that contribute to sleep related disordered breathing.  As dental professionals, we can evaluate and screen for possible sleep issues.  Dentistry is ever-changing and looking at airway needs as a priority in all dental settings whether we are general dentists or specialists is so important.  Nasal breathing is the key and incorporating screening for airway issues with the use of dental lasers can help treat issues like mouth-breathing or low tongue posture.  If breathing is not correct, then sleeping architecture and cranio-facial development is affected in more ways than one.  Let's take the time to pay more attention to this younger population of patients!

Learning objectives:

• Identify sleep related disordered breathing in children;
• Evaluate and screen root causes of sleep related disordered breathing;
• Incorporate the use of dental lasers for possible airway issues; and
• Implement tools for sleep issues in children.

Diana Batoon, DDS:

Dr. Batoon is an international speaker in Sleep Apnea and Sleep Disordered Breathing.  With her combined passion and knowledge, she challenges all in the dental and medical community to collaborate with each other to provide optimum health care to all patients.  Disordered Breathing affects people of all ages and can cause more serious issues later in adult life.  Not only does Dr. Batoon have the ability to influence others about the importance of identifying sleep issues among all walks of life, she has a proactive way of motivating children, parents, loved-ones and all those involved to pay attention to clues that something may be happening to their overall health.

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