Premium Dental Sleep Medicine Training, On Your Schedule
The Dental Sleep Medicine Mini-Residency is an interactive, on-demand online course. Ten modules of narrated lessons, demonstration videos, case scenarios and knowledge checks let you learn at your own pace, from your office, your home or anywhere you have an internet connection. No travel, no closed schedule and no time away from your patients.
Dental Sleep Medicine Mini-Residency
The Dental Sleep Medicine Mini-Residency is a comprehensive, interactive online course from Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC, a Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider. It teaches the clinical knowledge and the standardized workflows a dental practice needs to screen, evaluate, treat, document, refer and follow patients with sleep-related breathing disorders, along with the medical billing paths that support that care.
Dynamic Dental Sleep is more than a course. It is a standardized clinical and business system and a national sleep care network of dentists and physicians. After the course, Dr. Spooner and her team offer team training, implementation resources and ongoing access so you can put what you learn into practice in your own EHR, within your organization’s workflows, or in the Dynamic Dental Sleep platform.
Join the community of DDS-trained dentists who practice dental sleep medicine in line with AADSM and ACSDD practice guidelines, and help close the gap for one of the most underdiagnosed conditions in health care.
- Completion of the DDS Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine Course or an equivalent Continuing Education (CE) course with a passing score on the DDS Foundations Exam.
If you do not have an equivalent CE course, you can register for the Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine Course to meet this requirement.
If you have completed a CE course equivalent, you must:
- Complete an entrance exam upon registration.
- Complete DDS Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine, or upload proof of an equivalent introductory dental sleep medicine CE course of at least 5 hours.
Please note: Access to course materials will not be granted until these prerequisites are fulfilled.
Dr. Ashley Spooner, DDS, D.ABDSM, designed the Mini-Residency around a challenge she knows firsthand: stepping away from a full schedule, and from family, for days of training, paying for travel and lodging, and then trying to bring the whole team up to speed once you are back. Here you learn the standardized clinical and business system Dynamic Dental Sleep uses to screen, evaluate, treat, document, refer and manage patients with sleep-related breathing disorders, and you can return to any lesson whenever you need it. And because the system works best when the whole office runs it with you, your team can learn it too: DDS Workflow Mastery is interactive, on-demand online training for up to 8 team members, available as an additional implementation option once you complete the Mini-Residency.
Course Objectives
At the completion of the course, the participant will be able to:
- ✓Describe upper and lower airway anatomy, the mechanisms of breathing during sleep, and the types of sleep-related breathing disorders, including obstructive, central and complex sleep apnea.
- ✓Compare sleep study reports from polysomnography and Type 3 and Type 4 home sleep tests, and interpret AHI, RDI, REI and ODI from a sleep physician’s perspective.
- ✓Perform a consistent dental sleep exam, including health history risk factors, chairside airway assessment, dental signs of sleep-disordered breathing, and TMJ and range-of-motion screening.
- ✓Explain the AASM and AADSM recommendations and the standard of care for oral appliance therapy, identify contraindications, and select an appropriate appliance design and material.
- ✓Take an accurate construction bite, deliver an oral appliance, apply an evidence-based titration protocol, and plan objective efficacy testing and lifelong follow-up.
- ✓Prevent, recognize and manage the side effects of oral appliance therapy.
- ✓Establish a team-based screening protocol and use plain-language, permission-based conversations that support referral and case acceptance.
- ✓Document oral appliance therapy with SOAP notes and physician letters, build working relationships with physicians, and describe medical insurance and Medicare billing paths.
- ✓Integrate these skills in a complete patient case, from screening and referral through treatment, documentation and long-term care.
What’s Inside
Course Tuition: $4,500
Everything you need to treat obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliance therapy in your practice: the full clinical course, hands-on competency cases with your own patients, and the tools to put it to work.
Subscription access — Completing the Mini-Residency unlocks eligibility for Essential, Premier, and Practice Alignment Bundle plans, keeping your clinical knowledge current.
Find A Dentist listing — Complete the Mini-Residency and your Case Completion milestone to earn visibility in our patient-facing provider directory.
Stay listed — Your directory listing remains active and visible to patients seeking care as long as your annual subscription is current.
CE Information
Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC
Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit.
Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement.
4/1/2025 to 3/31/2028. Provider ID# 416445
| Educational method | Self-instruction (online, on demand). |
|---|---|
| Intended audience | Dentists (general dentists and specialists) adding dental sleep medicine and oral appliance therapy to their practice |
| CE credit | 21.5 hours of self-instruction CE credit |
| AGD subject codes | 730, 180, 200, 550, 565 |
| Course dates | Original release: November 12, 2024 · Last reviewed and re-released: October 18, 2026 · Expiration: October 17, 2029. CE credit is not available after the expiration date. |
| Course outline | View the course outline (PDF): learning objectives, modules, lessons and how to earn CE. |
| Availability | Self-paced. Access to the course for 1 year from enrollment. |
| Prerequisites | DDS Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine, or an equivalent introductory dental sleep medicine CE course of at least 5 hours, plus a passing score on the entrance exam. |
| Faculty and disclosures | Ashley Spooner, DDS, D.ABDSM: Founder and CEO of Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC, the provider of this course. Dimi Barot, MD, FAAN, FAASM, FRSM: Founder of Arima Health, a telemedicine sleep medicine practice. Lisa Shanks, RDA, DLT: Employee of Panthera Dental (Senior Clinical Sales Director, Midwest Division). Robyn Woidtke, MSN, RN, CCSH, RPSGT, FAAST: Consultant relationship with Panthera Dental. Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC reviewed all content to ensure it is evidence-based and free of commercial bias. |
| Commercial support | None. |
| Cost and refunds | Tuition: $4,500. See our Terms and Conditions for the refund and cancellation policy. |
| To earn CE credit | Complete Modules 1 to 10, pass the final exam with a score of 80% or higher (unlimited retakes), and complete the course evaluation. Your CE certificate is issued as soon as you submit the course evaluation. Passing the exam alone does not award CE. |
| Questions | Contact Dynamic Dental Sleep |
Additional Information
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