The Team Approach to Airway Management

May 14, 2021 8:30 AM - 04:00 PM (EDT)

$249 Member Doctor (enter AGD ID to earn member rate)

$349 Non Member Doctor

$99 Staff (must accompany a Doctor registration)

YM Dental Lab, Chantilly VA

6 CE Credits, Code 160 Sleep Apnea & Appliance Therapy

Course Description and Objectives:

The restorative dentist’s role in early detection, diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders is becoming increasingly important. By understanding the goals of dental airway management, we can properly communicate with other specialists and develop an interdisciplinary team. Dr. Nguyen will emphasize the importance of the team approach and highlight the leading role that the restorative dentist plays to achieve the best patient outcome. 

Upon completion of this session, you should be able to:

• Review the anatomical considerations and sites of obstruction associated with sleep disordered breathing
• Understand a multi-therapeutic approach to the phenotypes of pediatric and adult OSA
• Review position statements from major associations, i.e. ADA, AASM, AAP, AAO and more
• Review all the roles of the dental team

Tracey Nguyen, DDS, FAGD, AAACD

Dr. Tracey Nguyen maintains a private practice 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia. In 2015, she was accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. In 2016, she was honored with Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Magazine. Also in 2016, she finished her graduate training at the prestigious Kois Center in Seattle, Washington.  

She is one of the key opinion leaders in the Wellness Dentistry Network. The focus of this organization is to merge the gaps between medicine and dentistry and understand the oral systemic connection. After attending one of Dr. Jeff Rouse courses, she became increasingly interested in dentistry’s role in treating patients with dental malocclusions that are co-morbid with airway and sleep issues. As a visiting faculty mentor at Spear Education, she frequently mentors the Airway Workshop by Dr. Jeff Rouse. 

In 2016, she developed the Sleep and Airway Group, a local interdisciplinary group of doctors of various specialties. Her passion to create an awareness of the dental intervention strategies available to her peers and to her community.  

In 2020, she co-founded ASAP, Airway, Sleep and Pediatric Pathway. ASAP is an online mini-residency for pediatric dental sleep medicine. Her social media platform brings clinicians all over the world together for a common cause. Her mission is to develop a better understanding for the complexities of the disease and bring likeminded professions together to co-diagnose and treat.

Event Details:

YM Dental Lab/Dentcore: 14100 Park Meadow Drive Ste 100, Chantilly, VA

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, and a boxed lunch will be provided. 

Virginia AGD COVID Policy for In-Person Events: 

To account for social distancing, registration is limited to 40 attendees.  

The Virginia AGD is committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and staff. All participants including but not limited to attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, staff, and service providers, are expected to abide by this Code of Conduct. Its purpose is to achieve and maintain a safe and healthy environment with the objective of resuming normal operations to the extent possible.

Event Cancellation Policy:

Full refunds will only be given up to 30 days before the course. If 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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