Course 3: Skeletal Expansion – Getting Started with MARPE in the Non-Growing Patient

📅 May 20-22, 2027 | 📍 Florham Park, NJ

By Course 3, you’re ready to take on one of the most transformative—but technically demanding—airway procedures: Maxillary Skeletal Expansion (MARPE).

This course zeroes in on the surgical technique, giving you the clarity and confidence to work up, place, and manage MARPE cases safely and predictably.

What You’ll Learn

Through lecture, live patient demonstration, and hands-on training, you’ll master:

• Case Selection
• Identifying the ideal beginner MARPE patient
• Recognizing challenging cases (tori, prior oral/nasal surgeries, atypical anatomy)
• Knowing when to refer or delay treatment
• Workup & Surgical Technique
• Building your armamentarium and preparing for your first MARPE case
• Step-by-step surgical placement with live patient demonstration
• Chairside workflow for safe and efficient delivery
• Coordination of MARPE and Invisalign treatment
• Ongoing Case Management and Preventing Complications
• Avoiding TAD stripping, infections, and tissue trauma
• Understanding and improving the predictability of suture splitting
• What to do if the expansion doesn’t go as planned
• Patient instructions for successful treatment. 

Team Track: Supporting Surgical Success

• Assistants:
• Surgical setup and chairside management for MARPE procedures
• Pre-op prep and post-op patient instructions and management. 
• Anticipating the doctor’s needs during placement
• Admin Team:
• Scheduling longer surgical visits
• Patient communication for expectations, pre-op readiness, and post-op follow-up

When your team is trained, your first MARPE case feels supported and smooth—not intimidating.

Why This Course Matters

For many dentists, MARPE is the gateway to expanding airway treatment beyond growing patients. But it comes with a steep learning curve. This course flattens that curve, giving you the practical skills, judgment, and systems to confidently deliver MARPE in your practice.

If you’ve hesitated to add MARPE because it felt too complex, this course will give you the step-by-step guidance and live surgical observation  to finally make it possible.

Faculty:

Dr. Ilya Lipkin | Dr. Rosemarie Tan | Dr. Tracey Nguyen | Dr. Michelle Weddle

Registration

Registration Policy: Team Members vs. Independent Allied Health Professionals

To ensure fair and consistent application of registration fees, all participants must register under the category that accurately reflects their professional and employment status.

1. Team Member Registration

Team member pricing is available to eligible employees of a registered doctor who attend the course with their employing or supervising doctor.

Any allied health professional employed by a dental practice is classified as a team member, regardless of their professional credentials or clinical role.

This includes, but is not limited to, registered dental hygienists, speech-language pathologists, physical therapists, and other allied health providers employed by a dental practice.

Team members must attend the course with their employing or supervising doctor to qualify for team member pricing.

Team member pricing may not be used by an employee to register independently or attend without their associated doctor.

2. Independent Allied Health Professional Registration

The reduced allied health professional rate is reserved exclusively for independently practicing allied health providers who operate through their own independent business entity.

To qualify for this rate, the provider must:

Maintain their own independent business entity.

Not be employed by a dental practice.

Register and purchase under their own business entity rather than through a dental practice's team member registration.

Eligibility is based on the individual's actual employment and business status.

Allied health professional registrations do not include access to course recordings, replays, or other recorded educational content.

3. Eligibility Verification and Enforcement

ASAP Pathway reserves the right to verify employment status, professional affiliation, and independent business ownership to confirm registration eligibility.

If a participant registers under an incorrect category, ASAP Pathway reserves the right to adjust the registration fee to the applicable rate or deny discounted registration if the eligibility requirements are not met.

Registration categories are nontransferable and may not be used to obtain discounted pricing or educational access for which a participant does not qualify.

By registering, participants acknowledge and agree to these terms.