Making Anti-snoring Devices

Name: Making Anti-snoring Devices
Start: 2024-11-29T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-11-29T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Schottlander

Schedule

Fri Nov 29 2024 at 10:00 am to 06:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Schottlander | Letchworth, EN

Making Anti Snoring Devices presented by Giles Bradley
A One Day Hands-on course suitable for CDTS & Dental Technicans
With 6 Hours enhanced CPD
Up to 40% of the population snore, potentially disrupting the sleep of themselves and their partners. A proportion of them will suffer from
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) which requires medical intervention if severe.
Suitably trained GDPs, working in conjunction with properly accredited technicians can successfully treat most patients. However, it is ethically, clinically and legally necessary to first identify patients at risk of OSA and appropriately refer them before treatment. With increasing efforts being made to train dentists to screen, refer and treat patients with snoring conditions, there is a corresponding need for appropriately trained and accredited technicians and clinical dental technicians to construct these devices.
The Presenter:
Giles, qualified as a dental technician in 1990, and has owned and run Ultralight Dental Laboratory in West Yorkshire for more than 25 years. He has over 30 years’ experience of fabricating thermoformed appliances, with a particular focus on the Silensor-sl anti-snoring device for the past 20 years. Working with consultant dentists with a special interest in Dental Sleep Medicine, he is an integral part of the team at a Teaching Hospital which seeks to positively impact the quality of life of some of the hardest to treat patients Giles has committed himself for many years to improving his knowledge and developing new skills and techniques, prioritising continued education in both the UK and Europe. He brings this commitment to education to his passion to help others to improve their skills and further their own knowledge.
At the end of the course delegates should be able to better understand:
> The principles of anti snoring devices.
> Requirements of impressions and bite records using a protrusion gauge.
> Blocking out and duplicating of the master models in casting of the secondary working models.
> Increasing the protrusion.
> Construction and assembly of Silensor-sl Mandibular Adjustment Splints (MAS).
>Communication with dentists regarding fit and configuration of the appliance in the patient’s mouth.
> Compliance with Medical Devices Directive, General Dental Council requirements and related
Medico legal issues.
> How to modify bite planes.
> Repair of Silensor-s
COURSE FEE: £150 per person (£180 inc. VAT per person). Price includes refreshments
Places are limited so reserve your place(s) today. Freefax 0800 97 000 78 or contact the Schottlander Education Coordinator direct on 01462 704 633, e-mail: [email protected] or Freephone 0800 97 000 79