Seminar: “Determinants of Airway Health During the First 2.7 Years of Life”
Presenter: Kevin L. Boyd, DDS MSc
DATE AND TIME
March 10, 2021, 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
Course Director: Dr. Joseph Yousefian, DMD, MS
Location: ONLINE EVENT (webinar links will be sent prior to each event)
CE Credits: 3 CE credits will be given for each individual seminar.
Official Program: Download Comprehensive Treatment Seminars Official Handout
About this Seminar:
Malocclusion did not afflict anatomically modern humans for nearly the entire course of their 250,000-year evolutionary history and only began to appreciably appear near the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the late 18th/early 19-Centuries. Current prevalence estimations indicate that nearly 75% of children, ages 6 to 11 and 89% of youths, ages 12 to 17, now have some degree of malocclusion.
Numerous pre-WW II published articles within the corpus of medical and dental literature report on the common practice of physicians and orthodontists collaboratively intervening upon sleep related breathing disorders (SRBD) and malocclusion co-morbidity, utilizing an orthodontic/ dentofacial orthopedic (O/DO) sometimes as young as 30 months of age. This type of O/DO intervention, sometimes done adjunctively with adenoidectomy had been carried out for the primary purpose of improving nasal breathing and quality of life rather than correcting irregularities of the teeth.
Given that the aforementioned maldevelopments of the craniofacial and respiratory complexes (CFRC) are nearly always first detectable in the primary dentition, most often persistent and worsening beyond without appropriate intervention, and very frequently co-morbidities with pediatric SRBD, it seems a medically-indefensible position to recommend that a child should initially be evaluated for an orthodontic evaluation ‘by age 7’.
Learning objectives:
- To describe specific non-syndromic malocclusion phenotypes as maldevelopments of the intimately connected CFRC resulting from epigenetic factors commonly associated with cultural industrialization.
- To provide a framework within which the definitive diagnosis of specific non-syndromic malocclusion phenotypes can be described as Early Childhood Malocclusion.
- To reveal that the ‘spreading of the deciduous dental arches’ in cases of what is here described as severe-Early Childhood Malocclusion, had often been described as a therapeutic strategy for children who were afflicted with naso-respiratory compromise.
FAQs:
Can I use these credits towards my American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine Board Certification?
- Yes, Comprehensive Treatment Seminars Study Club is a non-profit corporation. CE credits earned here can be applied to your board certification.
Can I bring a staff member?
- Of course! You can purchase a ticket for your staff members for $45
How do I get a lin k to each webinar?
-Links to each webinar will be sent to attendees prior to each event
How can I contact the organizer with any questions?
- Contact Ryan Yousefian MS
- Call: 425-453-1001
- Email: admin@ctseminars.org
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