Begin Dental Sleep Medicine From Your Own Office
Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine is an interactive, on-demand online course for dentists and their teams. Narrated lessons, animations, knowledge checks and printable resources let you learn at your own pace, from anywhere, with no travel.
Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine: A Primer for Providers and the Dental Team
Whether you want to expand your clinical treatment skills or start by screening and referring, dental sleep medicine is a meaningful way to support your patients’ overall health.
Foundations of Dental Sleep Medicine is an interactive, on-demand online course that helps dentists and their team members understand the importance of sleep and how to screen for sleep-related breathing disorders. You will learn the patient workflows to start screening in your practice, with referral options that include a telemedicine sleep physician, a local sleep physician or the patient’s primary care physician.
Obstructive sleep apnea is common, frequently undiagnosed and, when left untreated, associated with serious health risks, including cardiovascular disease and stroke. It is also treatable, and dentists are well placed to help identify it because of their focus on the head and neck.
Course Details
This course is interactive and on demand: complete it at your own pace, from anywhere, with no travel.
After the course, you can expand your referral options with a telemedicine sleep physician, alongside local sleep physicians and primary care physicians. For those considering advancing their expertise with our mini-residency program, now is the perfect time to begin building a queue of patients who are ideal candidates for oral appliance therapy. By doing so, providers can seamlessly transition into treating patients immediately after completing the mini-residency course, ensuring a smooth and efficient continuation of care.
No pre-requisite required.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- ✓Explain why screening for sleep-related breathing disorders belongs in the dental setting.
- ✓Describe what sleep is, how it is regulated and how it changes across a night and a lifetime.
- ✓Differentiate the major categories of sleep disorders and the types of sleep-related breathing disorders.
- ✓Define obstructive sleep apnea, calculate AHI and RDI, and summarize what untreated OSA costs the body.
- ✓Identify the medical-history, oral and craniofacial signs of risk in adults and children.
- ✓Compare the treatment options for obstructive and central sleep apnea.
- ✓Establish a screening, communication and referral process that involves the whole dental team.
Dr. Ashley Spooner, DDS, D.ABDSM, knows how difficult it is to step away from the office and from family, train a team, and absorb the cost of traveling for continuing education. Foundations brings the first step of the Dynamic Dental Sleep system to you: why sleep matters, how to recognize sleep-related breathing disorders, and how to screen and refer patients in your practice.
What’s Inside
Course Tuition: $475
A complete, ready-to-use introduction to dental sleep medicine for dentists and their teams, with the resources to start screening the week you finish.
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). |
|---|---|
| CE credit | 5.0 hours of self-instruction CE credit |
| AGD subject codes | 730, 010 |
| Course dates | Original release: November 14, 2024 · Last reviewed: 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 | None. |
| Intended audience | Dentists and every member of the dental team (hygienists, assistants and front office) who want to screen patients for sleep-related breathing disorders. |
| Faculty and disclosures | Ashley Spooner, DDS, D.ABDSM: Founder and CEO of Dynamic Dental Sleep, LLC, the provider of this course. 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: $475. See our Terms and Conditions for the refund and cancellation policy. |
| To earn CE credit | Complete all lessons, pass the final exam with a score of 80% or higher, 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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