Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Looking Beyond the Teeth and Saving Lives! Fall MasterTrack

October 10, 2025 8:30 AM - October 11, 2025 5:00 PM (EST)

Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Looking Beyond the Teeth and Saving Lives!

2025 Fall MasterTrack

October 10TH-11TH, 2025

Friday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Saturday: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

YM Dental Lab, Chantilly VA

16 Participation Credits:

Code 200 (Orofacial Pain) 

Course Descriptions and Objectives:

Dentists are uniquely positioned among healthcare providers to easily evaluate for signs of obstructive sleep apnea. Oral appliance therapy performed by a qualified dentist can also be an effective treatment, literally saving lives. In this program Dr. Spencer will review the basics of normal sleep, snoring and obstructive sleep apnea in adults and children. You will most likely be thinking that YOU and everyone you know must have sleep apnea before he is through! Don’t worry though, he will also cover diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea, including the dentist’s role. If you or someone close to you may have sleep apnea (like your patients) you owe it to yourself and them to take this course and potentially change, or literally save, their lives.

In the hands on portion of the course all of the practical matters related to treatment of patients with obstructive sleep apnea from initial screening, referral for diagnosis, appliance selection, records, fitting, avoiding side effects and follow up will be discussed, with hands-on experience with the various appliance types, bite registrations and fabrication of a morning occlusal guide to help avoid bite changes.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand normal sleep and how to improve sleep
• Understand how obstructive sleep apnea affects adults and children
• Become familiar with the dental aspects of screening for OSA
• Understand possible problems and side effects of oral appliance therapy
• Be able to select an appropriate appliance based on what is most likely to work best for a specific patient
• Be able to fabricate a chairside morning occlusal guide to help avoid bite changes and tooth movement

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Dr. Jamison Spencer

Dr. Jamison Spencer is the director of the Centers for Sleep Apnea and TMJ, in Boise Idaho and Salt Lake City Utah. Dr. Spencer has personally treated thousands of patients with sleep apnea and TMJ problems, and now focuses on helping dentists help their patients with such problems.

Dr. Spencer is the Past-President of the American Academy of Craniofacial Pain, a Diplomate of the American Board of Craniofacial Pain, a Diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine, a Diplomate of the American Board of Craniofacial Dental Sleep Medicine and has a Masters in Craniofacial Pain from Tufts University. He taught head and neck anatomy at Boise State University, and is adjunct faculty at the University of Utah School of Dental Medicine. He has been invited to give lectures on TMD, Dental Sleep Medicine and head and neck anatomy throughout the United States at every major dental meeting, and has also spoken in Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean, Australia, Europe and India.

Dr. Spencer created Spencer Study Club, an online education, mentoring and implementation program to help dentists and their teams help more of their patients with sleep apnea and TMJ disorders.

Dr. Spencer now lives in Pleasant View, Utah with his wife of 33 years, Jennifer, and their last child of their 6 childres who is still at home. They are blessed to have 3 of their 4 married children and all 6 of their grandchildren within a few miles. Dr. Spencer enjoys outdoor activities including running, skiing, waterskiing, kiteboarding, mountain biking, and would have run the Boston Marathon in 2020 had it not been cancelled.

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Event Details:

The YM Education Center is a new, state-of-the-art educational facility in Chantilly, VA and home to YM Dental Lab. The venue is conveniently located 25 miles from Washington DC, with fully equipped, spacious educational areas designed to easily seat up to 40 attendees, socially distanced. You can tour the lab and education facility, here. 

There is ample, free parking in front of the facility.

Registration opens at 8:00 am, course to begin promptly at 8:30 am.

Coffee, soft drinks and water will be available throughout the day, Breakfast and lunch will be provided each day.

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Event Cancellation Policy: Full refunds will only be given up to 30 days before the course. If the course is held as scheduled and a refund is requested within 30 days of the course, a credit will be applied to the registrants account for use toward a future VAGD program.

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