The Program You’ve Been Anxiously Waiting For is FINALLY HERE!

The Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics Pathway

For Dentists looking to help children avoid airway issues
and treat those who have already developed
sleep and breathing disorders—
effectively, efficiently, enjoyably (and, of course, profitably)

It seems like every dental course, every dental magazine, and every dental podcast is talking about sleep and airway.

It’s everywhere!

Big time, historically famous, post graduate dental CE programs, particularly those focused on restorative dentistry, didn’t even have sleep apnea on their radar 10 years ago, blaming bruxism on 2nd molar interferences and insufficient canine guidance. Now evaluation of the airway is a primary focus and of greatest concern when treatment planning worn dentition cases and complex care.

Ten years ago there was 1 University based mini residency in Dental Sleep Medicine. Now there are 5.

Sleep and airway information is EVERYWHERE!

And now with all of us and our staff concerned about creating aerosols, unknown new standards and costly infection control, and some patients being scared to return to the dentist, helping people with sleep apnea seems more appealing than ever!

You may feel like you’re drowning in a sea of information, and you’re searching for a lifeboat labeled WHAT TO DO!

In adults, implementation isn’t easy, but at least there is a fairly clear pathway.

1. Screen the patient for a possible airway issue
2. Refer for objective testing
3. If the patient is found to have sleep apnea, then they are referred for treatment (CPAP, oral appliance therapy or surgery).

Of course, the devil is in the details… but overall, the adult pathway is pretty well defined, and very similar from state to state and country to country.

But what about with kids?

With children the pathway is far less distinct.

The steps are pretty much the same… screening, referring/working with medical colleagues, objective testing and treatment when indicated.

But HOW to do all these things is VERY different in children and can be SUPER FRUSTRATING for all involved!

Before the covid crisis hit I was attending a “grand rounds” for our local sleep community.

The presentation was given by a pediatric sleep doctor, and was super interesting (regarding use of a high flow nasal cannula, without supplemental oxygen, for children with OSA… cool stuff!).

At one point in the presentation the doctor was reviewing various options in the treatment of children with OSA and he mentioned palatal expansion.

He then said, “I wish we had more communication and collaboration with our dental colleagues with regard to this treatment option.”

So I marched right up after he finished and introduced myself as a dentist that was very interested in “more communication and collaboration.”

I then said, “doctor, could you perhaps send me a list of pediatricians that I could refer patients to who will understand the need for further evaluation and won’t just blow off the patient/parent by saying ‘those tonsils don’t look that big to me.’”

His eyes looked up and away as he thought about my question.

And then he said, “I really can’t think of anyone in particular.”

So I followed up with, “so would I be able to refer patients directly to you?”

And he said that would be great.

The problem is that he’s at a children’s hospital, the sleep lab capacity is limited, and getting a patient in takes a long time.

A VERY LONG TIME.

The BIG POINT that I want to make by sharing this story is that the pediatric sleep doctor couldn’t think of A SINGLE NAME of a pediatrician that he thought I could refer patients to.

YIKES!

So that means, in my area, if any dentist was to screen a child in their practice for being at risk for sleep apnea, and encourage mom to get the child in to their pediatrician to bring it up, MOST LIKELY the pediatrician will say that it’s nothing to worry about! Unless the child is “lucky enough” to have golf ball sized tonsils kissing at the back of their throat.

Sound familiar?

This is one of the most frustrating aspects of trying to help these kids!

You know they need help, but how do you get them to the next step?

And there’s a BIG difference with children versus adults…

Time is of the essence!

The 40 year old fat guy who has been snoring since he was 18 also needs help, and the sooner the better.

But the 6 year old who is still wearing a pull up to bed, struggling with reading, and starting to feel like there is something wrong with him NEEDS YOUR HELP NOW!

I once heard a well known speaker on sleep apnea ask the audience “how many nights without proper oxygenation of the developing brain would be too many nights for your child?”

Of course the answer is “1 night would be too many.”

BUT YOU KNOW ALL THIS!

You know how important it is! You know how critical growth and development are to the long term health and happiness of a child.

BUT WHERE DO YOU START?

This is, unfortunately, where the frustration level get’s turned up to level 1000+!!!!

It seems like everyone talks about sleep and airway in children, but very few provide any guidance on what to do and how to do it.

The only people who seem to be providing any guidance at all happen to also be selling some device, functional appliance, advanced education course, special exercises, laser, etc., etc., etc.

These things are all great, and we’re lucky to have them, but when a program is industry driven it always makes me question if I’m getting the whole story or just the story that supports whatever is being sold as the solution.

I went to a multi day course once on a specific type of therapy that could be used in anyone, but was more focused on children (because, due to growth and development, the results were often quite dramatic in children).

For 2 days they told me how awesome the therapy was.

Lots of time looking at research articles and case studies.

I was sold… or I wouldn’t have been there in the first place… but they kept selling me and the others in the room.

Finally, on day 3, we spent about half the day going over the actual WHAT TO DO.

The SUPER DISAPPOINTING part of it though was that the “what to do” was gone over so fast that there was no way anyone in the room would have felt comfortable actually DOING what they just learned.

So more courses and instruction were offered.

Seriously?

And probably most of the people in the room signed up for more because THEY KNEW HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS!

The practical aspects of this 4 day program could have EASILY been presented in a single day course.

And don’t get me wrong please… the course was VERY well done, but I just left wishing that I felt better equipped to help the kiddos in my practice.

NOW!

One of the problems with a lot of these industry supported courses is they often have to teach to “the lowest common denominator” in the room… which is often dental assistants or hygienists (or people from other healthcare related fields, like physical therapists, speech pathologists, etc.).

It’s tough to be succinct in your education when your students don’t all have the same level of experience, education and background.

So I kept looking.

I kept taking more courses.

I tried things as I became comfortable.

I spent tens of thousands of dollars, and many, many, many weekends away from my family.

And I started to put together the hundreds of puzzle pieces. After many years of struggle, frustration and sometimes even heartache, a clear image was finally formed.

Here’s the deal…

This isn’t just my story.

This is OUR story.

Tracey, Stacy and Michelle.

And, we are willing to bet that this is your story too.

You WANT to help the many children in your practice who need you.

You WANT to help your own children or grandchildren or nieces and nephews.

You WANT to be an advocate for healthy growth and development and expand your practice from “just treating” to possibly preventing!

But you don’t know how.

You don’t know where to begin.

The consequences are too great to do this in a half-hearted way.

So you’re stuck.

You don’t know how to move forward, but your heart and mind won’t allow you to move back.

You can’t just ignore what you see in your practice everyday. The stories from the parents. The stories from your friends about their children or grandchildren.

It’s too important.

That’s what we thought too.

So we fought, and struggled, and practiced, and made just about every mistake that can be made, while spending more money than we ever thought possible, and dedicating countless hours of our lives to the pursuit of excellence in the field of pediatric airway and sleep.

We had to bushwhack through the brush and weeds for a long, long time.

But now there is a clear pathway for others to follow.

All of us spend a good portion of our time teaching our colleagues about pediatric sleep and airway and how we can help these wonderful children. How we can have an incalculable impact on their current wellbeing and their entire future.

How can you measure the impact of a child being able to get off their ADHD meds?

Can you measure the impact of a child finally being able to read at their grade level instead of avoiding reading out loud and feeling like they’re stupid?

What’s the impact of a child being able to participate in a sleep-over instead of having to get picked up early because they must wear a pull-up to bed and they’d die of embarrassment if their friends ever found out?

We can’t measure these impacts or their long term effects either, but the tears of joy from the parents of the children we’ve helped tell at least a small part of the story.

And it’s this passion that historically made us take our time to be out on the road teaching others.

But there is only so much that we can do in a few hour or even a few day course—AND NOW THOSE COURSES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO COVID.

But people are getting back to work, and once again, EVERY DAY each of us has colleagues reach out to ask us questions.

“How do I do this? How do I do that? When do I do this? What should I do when this happens?”

While we’re happy to answer these questions, we realized that this is a VERY inefficient way to do things.

SO WE PUT TOGETHER AN ALL INCLUSIVE PROGRAM,
AND YOU ARE INVITED TO BE ONE OF OUR
2020 FOUNDING MEMBERS!

We are members of Spencer Study Club.

If you aren’t yet, and you treat adults for sleep and TMD, you should be too.

Spencer Study Club does have a little bit of information on pediatric sleep and airway, but not much—that’s not Jamison’s focus and he tends to teach what he knows works.

We have been guest speakers at Spencer Study Club hands-on courses, teaching about myofunctional therapy and other topics… but there is never time to DIG DEEP.

The pediatric airway and sleep pathway is VERY different from the pathway in adults and a whole system is needed.

A system that we’ve developed and actually use in our own practices.

We put our heads together and came up with an On-Demand Program, with all of the Mentoring, Helps, Forms and Feedback necessary for you to FINALLY make Pediatric Airway and Sleep an Enjoyable and Profitable Part of Your Practice.

Who is this for?

The Airway Sleep & Pediatrics (ASAP) Pathway is for you if:

· You’ve already taken one or more courses in pediatric airway, but are still thinking:
      o What are the next steps?
      o How do I actually apply and implement what I’ve learned?
      o Where do I find a supportive, helpful and friendly group to discuss clinical cases with and help me make fewer of the inevitable beginner mistakes?
     o How do I incorporate what I’ve learned into the daily routine of my restorative clinical practice (without screwing up the flow and totally ticking off all my staff)?
· You’re overwhelmed with the various educational options and don’t know where to start or what to take next.
· You’re looking for a single place to bring all the puzzle pieces together.
· You’re looking to train your team members in the comfort of your office or on their own schedule, and at their own pace, WITHOUT all the expense of flying them around the country (if they’ll even consider flying now) and then hoping they stay with your office long term.
· You want to learn how to start collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team of physicians, dentists and therapists but you don’t know where to begin.
· You want to learn more about pediatric dental sleep medicine, the different ways it could be incorporated into your practice, whether this is something that is right for you to incorporate in your practice, at what level, AND HOW TO DO SO WITHOUT LOSING MONEY!
· You would like to learn in the comfort of your own home, on your own schedule (i.e. as fast or slow as you want), without travel and time away from your family and practice, and without the extra expense incurred with on-site live classes (that are taught at the speed of the lowest common denominator or so fast it’s totally confusing—or, at this point, totally cancelled).
· You are looking to become part of a like minded community of dentists, and contribute to the group’s implementation of pediatric dental sleep medicine and growth of the field.

Who is this not for?

This is not for you if:
· You think you can learn everything in one weekend.
· You’re just looking for a “cookbook,” “one size fits all,” “use this thing and everything will be fine” approach (spoiler alert—there’s no such thing—trust us—we know from personal experience).
· You’re not really interested in helping children, you’re just looking for a get-rich-quick scheme and you think selling pieces of plastic to the parents of all your pediatric patients would be a great way to increase revenue.

What Is Included in the 
Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics Pathway?

We’ve developed the GPS to guide and support you in your pediatric airway journey.

Your membership gives you access to:

· On-Demand Educational Video Library that you and your team can access, as much as you’d like, from anywhere you’d like, whenever you’d like.
· Private (and secret) Facebook group where you can post questions in a safe and supportive environment and have discussions regarding pediatric dental sleep medicine and the application of it in your practice.
· Document center with access to all the tried and true forms and documents (which are also updated as changes in the field occur).
· Members only educational and practical zoom meetings with cutting edge guests, with an archive of past zoom meeting recordings.
· Featured Case Reviews of member submitted cases to be discussed by the 3 of us and with the whole group over live video.

Let’s dig in now to what is included in the on-demand video content.

BUT BEFORE I THROW A BUNCH MORE BULLET POINTS AT YOU…

You might already be feeling a little overwhelmed just thinking about all of this content. You’re probably thinking, “I barely have enough time now to do everything I need to do! How could I possibly find the time to take advantage of all the awesome content in the Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics Pathway program?”

The good news is that with the on-demand content, and even the webinars and case reviews, you can watch or listen (and transcripts are coming soon for the main educational content)… whenever and wherever you want.

Out on a walk with the dog.

While you get a run in.

Driving to the office.

While you’re folding clothes.

By the pool or on the beach.

In between patients.

Sitting in your favorite comfy chair after the end of a long day (perhaps with a nice glass of wine, or a cigar if that’s your thing).

WHENEVER!!!

Obviously right now almost no one is traveling… but have you ever considered how much time you LOSE when you have to travel to a course, stay in a hotel, drive to and from the airport, deal with delays, security lines, weather, etc.? It’s a TON of time!

Time you’ll never recover!

And I don’t know about you, but I’m looking at travel MUCH differently now than I used to.

Being able to consume content whenever and wherever you want saves you hours and hours, and can even be done while checking something else off your to do list!

AND, how many pearls would you need to pick up in order to make this investment worth it?

How many children would you need to help?

What if you only helped one… your own? Or your own grandchild? Or your best friend’s child? Or niece or nephew?

How would you calculate the ROI?

What is that child’s future worth? How about those lives that will eventually be touched by that child?

So don’t get overwhelmed by how much content there is… just recognize that in order to eat this elephant you’ll be able to do it one bite at a time, and you’ll be able to eat that elephant at your own pace (as fast or slow as you want), but you will NOT be alone as you do… never more than a few clicks away from answers and friendly support from people who have been where you are now.

Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics Pathway

On-Demand Video Content

Level 1: Screening Diagnosis and Risk Accessment (13.5 Hours of Content)

· What is Sleep Disordered Breathing?
· The parent who says, “my child does not have apnea.”
· The importance of early recognition and intervention… how many nights without proper oxygenation and proper deep and REM sleep are too many nights for your child?
· Diagnosis—how do we accurately and objectively recognize airway issues in children?
· How the pathophysiology of SDB in children is different than in adults, and why it’s often more difficult to diagnose.
· Medical comorbidities of pediatric SDB.

· Screening tools that are easy to use, affordable and effective.
· How to best communicate with your medical colleagues (with samples and templates).
· Understanding Pediatric PSG’s (and getting a good one in the first place—since kids are NOT just little adults).
· Data collection: what do you need and why?
· How to evaluate a ceph for possible airway issues (and communicate with your orthodontic colleagues).
· Tracey’s Airway Alphabet for Dental Airway strategies!
· FDA approved Home Sleep Testing for Kids? Are they safe? Reliable? Worth it?
· How to work with your medical and dental colleagues, instead of trying to work around them (and how to stay out of trouble).

Level 2: Understanding and Applying Interventional Strategies (14 Hours)

• Goals of interventional strategies: what can we realistically accomplish?
• Understanding the guidelines of treatment for Pediatric OSA.
• The concept of continuous growth guidance vs. orthodontic treatment.
• Evaluation and diagnosis of myofunctional disorders and what to do next.
• Pre-orthodontic phase therapy.
• Which myofunctional therapy appliances to use. How, why and when?
• Myofunctional therapy: Should you get a team member involved? Which one? Hygienist or DA? Neither? Both?

• How and when to refer, depending on your current situation, desires, training, office resources and clinical capacity (i.e. how to not overwhelm your entire team)

• Understanding all the different disciplines, their roles and how to orchestrate excellent care for your pediatric patients.

Level 3: Advanced Interventional Strategies (10 hours)

• Myofunctional therapy, breathing, posture.
• Orthopedic techniques.
• Orthodontic techniques.
• Orthodontic concepts: Evidence based treatments for expansion, protraction and the lagging mandible.
• Interdisciplinary care vs multidisciplinary care.
• It’s NOT all about the anatomy: understanding and addressing non anatomical factors in pediatric sleep and breathing.

Level 4: How To Take Pediatric Airway and Sleep from Expensive Hobby to Profitable Practice (4 hours)

• Different Business models: One size NEVER fits all!
• Marketing yourself (especially when you HATE marketing yourself).
• Developing the Interdisciplinary Team.
• Other influences on Sleep—Sleep hygiene/blue light/behaviors/electronics near/in bed, Vitamin D, Medications, stimulants that interfere with REM/cause bruxism, hormones, etc.

• Training your team!
• Medical billing: if, when, how and “just because you can doesn’t mean you should!”

In Addition to the over 40 Hours of Content Above we ALSO HAVE…

Quick Bites: Short “TED Style” Talks that are constantly being added to (currently containing):

· Evidence Based Treatment
· The Role of the Nose in Airway Collapse
· How to Order Vitamin D Testing Through Ultra Lab Tests

Video Tutorials (also being added to on a regular basis):

· Using Anatomodel
· How to Interpret High Resolution Pulse Oximetry

Zoom Meeting Archives (We’ve been enjoying some awesome zoom meetings with our Founders—and you get to watch them!):

· Case study reviews
· Members’ questions
· Interview with Dr. Stasha Gominak
· Interview with Dr. Angie Tenholder
· and more added each month!

Document Center

· Screening tools and forms.
· Screening questionnaires.
· Paperwork for monitoring devices (HRPO, CPC, etc.).
· Initial Evaluation Templates.
· Progress Notes (Follow up) Templates.
· Photo Templates.
· Flow sheet of how to incorporate in the dental office.
· Letter templates for correspondence with the medical community.
· AND MORE!!!

Why Us? Why Now? Why You?

We’ve been where you are now.

We’ve each spent countless hours “in the weeds” looking for the path… but eventually we realized that we had to BLAZE THE TRAIL, because there wasn’t one already.

Our primary focus is to educate as many dentists as we can to help as many children as we can.

That’s it.

Simple… but not easy.

In doing this we know that we will also gain information from other colleagues across the world to promote this movement of health and wellness that is needed in the collaborative medical/dental model.

We’re all in this together, and we need to stop trying to do everything by ourselves.

There are many avenues in which dentists are gaining education and knowledge in the pediatric airway field. However, many of these avenues are limited in scope to a particular product or technique. Most are biased and company driven (one size fits all) that often over promise and under deliver.

Our medical colleagues are hyper-sensitive to this “sales of stuff first, evidence later” approach, and it gives us dentists a bad reputation. For the sake of these children, we can’t afford to alienate our medical colleagues.

The Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics Pathway group will strive to give clarity to the body of knowledge available in the field, with the purpose of providing members information on the practical application of this knowledge into private practice.

After all, we only help the children by implementing what we learn.

What does this mean for you?

It means that you will finally be able to:

· Gain perspective on how a technique could impact your workflow before investing your valuable time and money in learning that technique.
· Have a flow sheet to help determine to what extent you would like to offer airway-related dental services in your practice, and figure that out BEFORE investing.
· Avoid jumping from one educational course to the next without being able to implement anything in your practice because there’s that “one more thing” you’re told you have to learn before you’re able to do it (or until you feel comfortable doing it)… and thus falling into the potentially bottomless airway CE rabbit hole.
· Understand what kind of team support will be needed in incorporating pediatric airway into your restorative or specialty dental office workflow.
· Understand how to not only help your pediatric patients but do so profitably.

As this field is quickly evolving, we will create an ongoing conversation among dentists interested in the airway health of our children, and continue to develop the best practices and protocols of implementation.

Our goal is NOT to make your practice like ours.

As a matter of fact, the 3 of us each have different practices! There is no ONE WAY to do things.

Our goal is to help YOU implement pediatric airway and sleep in your practice, the way YOU want to.

For some dentists that will simply mean screening and referring.

And what’s wrong with that?

Again, how many children would you need to help by simply recognizing that they might have a problem and getting them where they need to go in order to feel that your investment was worth it?

1?

2?

10?

It’s kind of an emotionally charged question, isn’t it?

AND IT SHOULD BE!!!

And the reality is that if you currently see children in your practice, you are seeing kids with these potentially life altering issues EVERY DAY (and likely have for years).

On the other hand, you may be comfortable getting involved in interventional strategies.

You may be excited about orthodontic techniques.

You may want to incorporate myofunctional therapy (and have the training available for your team at a fraction of the typical cost and with NO travel necessary).

You may wish to work with a surgeon to provide interdisciplinary care.

Whatever you want… we’ll help you move toward it.

We understand that the evidence and research in this field is still in its infancy.

In addition to helping you and our other colleagues with education, mentoring and implementation, one of our greatest goals is to gather data from our members in order to assist our profession in building a stronger evidence base and improve outcomes. As we work together we will FAR more quickly figure out what works and what doesn’t… without the potential biases that are inherent with industry driven solutions.

A Little About Us

Dr. Stacy Ochoa

Stacy started her journey in Dental Sleep Medicine 16 years ago when her Dad was found to be CPAP intolerant. She took on this journey as a fight to literally save her Dad’s life. She took all the courses she could as well as obtained Diplomate status with the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine (ABDSM). Stacy was one of the first Diplomates in the St. Louis area and has gained the respect of her local Sleep Physicians and ENTs by working collaboratively and communicating well with her medical colleagues in a much needed interdisciplinary approach.

Unfortunately, in 2017, Valentine’s night, her Dad lost his life in his sleep.

His oral appliance was found sitting on the bathroom sink.

This further ignited a passion in her to find a way to help others… to offset the health burdens that OSA has on both adults, their children… and now HER children.

During this time she also realized that all 5 children in her own home had a form of Sleep Disordered Breathing, Apnea or Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome.

No one was coming to her aide to HELP HER OWN CHILDREN. Beyond tonsilloadenoidectomy and CPAP there seemed to be no options. She knew there HAD to be something else!!! She wanted answers!

She was a mother on a mission, and nothing was going to stop her!

Should couldn’t ignore sleep and breathing problems in her own children, so how could she continue to ignore them in her patients?

As such, her DSM practice transitioned from treatment of adults to include children as well.

Stacy then took the following courses on her journey looking for answers for her own children and the parents who would put their trust in her helping their children.

· Biobloc Coursework
· TAD Expansion Coursework
· Phase 1 Expansion Coursework (Gerber Interceptive Pediatric Orthodontics)
· ALF Coursework (Under Dr Darick Norstrom, Inventor of the ALF therapy)
· Buteyko Breathing
· Myobrace/Healthy Start/Myomunchee and other functional appliance Coursework
· Training with Dr Stasha Gominak (Harvard trained Neurologist) on the role of Vitamin D and Sleep.
· Studying the Endocannabinoid System (the role of EBs and Phyto EBs on sleep health)

And…

she is Not done…

because she knows there is more.

Today, she is one of the key pediatric airway speakers at the annual North American Dental Sleep Medicine Symposium. She continues to lecture across the country at local clubs and organizations raising awareness of this treatable and preventable epidemic. She also mentors others on this journey and helps guide dentists on their paths to bring this much needed intervention into their dental practices. She juggles the roles of Mom, Dentist, Business Owner and Pediatric Airway Warrior, sometimes dropping a ball like we all do, but picking it right back up and juggling away… because it’s important.

Knowing that she could only help so many dentists by herself, and with her limited time and energy, she teamed up with Michelle and Tracey.

Dr. Michelle Weddle

Looking back on it, Michelle now realizes that her journey in airway actually started during her childhood.

She was constantly sick with sore throats and ear infections.

Her mother, also a dentist, tells her stories about how difficult it was for her to go to sleep and stay asleep. During her teenage years she struggled with daily headaches and issues sleeping.

When she had children of her own she experienced what her mother must have gone through. Michelle’s son would also wake up numerous times in the middle of the night.

By this time, she had taken several adult dental sleep medicine courses and had identified that her parents, including mom the dentist, had sleep apnea. She had seen first hand the genetic tendency of airway issues, recognized the manifestation in her family and started seeing the same things in her patients.

She also knew first-hand how much health and quality of life can be improved when these issues are addressed.

She has always been fascinated by the interconnections between medicine and dentistry and has spent her entire career seeking knowledge in these areas. Driven by the need to find answers for her own parents, children, and herself she spent the last 13 years studying dental sleep medicine, orthodontics, TMJ disorders, craniofacial pain and other airway-related topics, applying what she has learned not only to help her family but also her patients.

Michelle is a passionate teacher, honoring her many mentors by sharing knowledge just as they have shared with her. She has presented to study clubs, associations, dentists, physicians, auxiliaries and the general public. She is a believer in collaborative care and is a member of the GOTHAM Collaborative (Growth Airway TMJ Health and Airway Management), which brings together dentists, physicians, therapists, and other auxiliaries in order to help people. In addition to clinical training, Michelle is a big believer in business systems and business coaching. As such, she tries to study best practices in order to focus and constantly improve her own practice’s business approach.

Her airway journey has included:
· Becoming board-eligible for the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine
· Straightwire, clear aligner, functional and interceptive orthodontics, Growth appliance and Controlled Arch
· Trained in myofunctional therapy and various appliance systems that aid in myofunctional therapy
· Courses at Dawson, Pankey, Kois and Spear. Airway Prosthodontics mentor at Spear.
· Member of AADSM, AACP, IAO
· Founding member of Spencer Study Club, Member of Spencer Study Club Business Elite
· Sleep hygiene, mindfulness and other practices that could improve sleep quality and enhance physical, mental and emotional well-being.
· The effect of lifestyle changes including nutrition, diet and exercise in order to improve airway function.

Dr. Tracey Nguyen (#traveling dentist)

Tracey proves that you don’t have to take a mini sleep residency or become a diplomate of the ABDSM to be successful helping people with airway issues. She maintains a private practice 30 minutes outside of Washington, DC in Northern Virginia. In the last 5 years, she has positioned herself to be one of the key opinion leaders in pediatric dental sleep medicine. But she wasn’t always into airway…

Probably like you, her core was, and is, restorative dentistry.

In 2015, she was accredited by the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. She is 1 of 4 dentists with this accreditation.

In 2016, she was honored with Top 25 Women in Dentistry by Dental Products Magazine.

Also in 2016, she finished her graduate training at the prestigious Kois Center in Seattle, Washington.

She is one of the key opinion leaders in the Wellness Dentistry Network. This organization was founded by Dr. Doug Thompson. The focus of this organization is to merge the gaps between medicine and dentistry and understand the oral systemic connection.

After attending one of Dr. Jeff Rouse’s courses, she became increasingly interested in dentistry’s role in treating patients with dental malocclusions that are often comorbid with airway and sleep issues.

In 2016, she developed the Sleep and Airway Group, a local interdisciplinary team of doctors of various specialties, built through her passion to create an awareness of the dental intervention strategies available to her peers and to her community.

As a visiting faculty of Spear Education, she frequently mentors the Airway Workshop by Dr. Jeff Rouse and she continues to hold continuing education courses throughout the country.

Tracey has experience in almost all of the pre-form orthodontic appliances available, from Myobrace, Healthy Start, Myomunchee and more. She has trained with Dr. Nordstrom, the inventor of ALF. Her orthodontic training consists of Gerber orthodontics, Gerety orthodontics, and others.

Her social media platform brings clinicians all over the world together for a common cause. Her mission is to develop a better understanding of the complexities of the disease and bring like minded professionals together to co-diagnose and treat.

This year she will be the keynote speaker at the International Association of Orofacial Myology. She has also been asked to speak this fall at the Virginia Sleep Medicine Convention.

To put it all together in simple terms, she’s the one to know in pediatric airway.

We are the doctors who will be mentoring you and helping you with every step. Helping you implement pediatric sleep and airway with WAY less stress, hassle, overwhelm and expense than we did.

Speaking of expense…

Guess how much money we’ve collectively spent on sleep and airway related education?

Go ahead guess.

Just the 3 of us.

How much do you think?

Ok… let’s make it easier.

Guess how much the 3 of us have collectively spent over just the past 3 years.

Ready?

OVER $120,000

Sorry… but I need to catch my breath a little.

It flat our HURTS to write that number down… but it’s the painful truth.

We all appreciate the many people who have educated us, and we know that we wouldn’t be where we are now without having made this investment. But still…

Ouch!

And the worst part is that out of that $120K probably $80K of it was repeating stuff.

“An apnea = cessation of breathing for 10 seconds or more, and in the pediatric population an AHI of > 1.5 is considered abnormal…”

We’ve all sat in umpteen courses and heard this over and over and over, and that’s one of dozens if not hundreds of examples.

Repetition is good, but I prefer when I’m in charge of the repetition. When I get to choose what I’m reviewing and how fast I want to review it.

That’s one of the problems with traditional CE programs.

There’s no fast forward.

There’s no rewind.

There’s no pause.

That’s why we’ve created a program where you can take things at your own pace. Where you go watch videos, listen to audios or (coming soon :-) ) read the transcripts of the content, whenever and wherever you want. You can go out of order if you’d like. You can go back and watch or listen to or read something over and over again, because we all know that when you need the material might not be for months after you first review it.

You don’t have to go through what we did.

You don’t have to travel all over the country, taking time away from your practice, and precious time away from your family.

So are you ready?

If so…

We Invite YOU to Become A Founding Member of the Airway, Sleep & Pediatrics (ASAP) Pathway

We are happy to extend this invitation for you to become a Founding Member of ASAP Pathway.

Founding members of ASAP Pathway will receive:

• On-Demand access to the over 40 hours of video and audio content to watch or listen to whenever and wherever you want
• On-Demand access to our How-To Video Library full of practical pearls
• On-Demand access to our document center full of ready to modify screening, exam and treatment related forms
• Invitation to our Secret ASAP Pathway Members Only Facebook Group
• Invitation to our “Zoom Casts” where the 3 of us, and sometimes guests, talk about all things pediatric airway and sleep related
• Invitation to our “Myofunctional Minutes” Zoom casts where we show you how to use the most effective myofunctional exercises in a fast and fun way
• All hours are AGD CE credit approved! You won’t have to get on a plane to acquire CE for years!!!

That’s a ton of stuff! And we’ll always be keeping things up to date in this rapidly changing, growing and exciting field, making sure that our members are always the most informed.

2020 Founding Member Tuition

Because of the Coronavirus crisis we are extending the opportunity to join ASAP Pathway as one of our Founding Members through the end of 2020.

Founding Member Tuition Year One

6 payments of $1375
or save with a single payment of $7975

Founding Member Tuition Year Two

12 monthly payments of $147
or save with a single payment of $1499*

Founding Member Tuition Additional Years

12 monthly payments of $147
or save with a single payment of $1499*

*Founding Member ongoing tuition is LOCKED IN for as long as the Founding Member remains a member at $1499/year.

We are offering you, our friends, the chance to be a founding member of ASAP Pathway. All the content is ready for you RIGHT NOW! All you need to do is join.

So if you’re saying…

“SIGN ME UP!!!! I WANT TO BE A
FOUNDING MEMBER!!!”

Please go to ASAPPathway.com/join to become a Founding Member immediately!

But there is even more awesomeness!

Awesome Bonus #1

Founding Members will receive their second year of membership FOR FREE!

So instead of paying tuition of $1499 for your second year of membership, you will receive the second year at NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.

We know that it takes time to get things rolling. You want to learn and be confident before you start treating your patients. You want your team to be up to speed. You want to do a great job, and you know that will take some time.

As a Founding Member you’ll have 24 months without additional costs to take advantage of all of the membership benefits, education and mentoring so that you’ll have plenty of time to actually implement what you’ve learned in your practice.

Cool, right?!

Awesome Bonus #2

Founding Members will retain LIFETIME ACCESS to the online educational components of ASAP Pathway.

Are you kidding me now??!!!

LIFETIME???!!!

While there will be charges after your second year to maintain your membership and have access to all of the incredible updates, live content, mentoring, and everything else that we build with ASAP Pathway, you won’t have to worry about losing access to the core online educational content. As a Founding Member you will be able to access this content for the rest of your life, even if you let your ongoing membership expire. AND, that means you’ll have this incredible resource for team training—FOREVER!!!!

Awesome Bonus #3

Founding Members will receive LIFETIME ACCESS to the special “How, When and What of the Top 20 Myofunctional Therapy Exercises,” AND “The Chairside Guide to Myofunctional Therapy.” These practical tutorial videos will give you all the details to IMMEDIATELY implement Myofunctional Therapy in your practice, INCLUDING Tracey’s post tongue tie release protocol! AVAILABLE NOW FOR INSTANT ACCESS!

In these tutorials you AND YOUR TEAM will learn EXACTLY how to IMPLEMENT Myofunctional Therapy in your practice, now. The Chairside Guide can even be used to just push play and let the video instruct your patients on what to do. This is something we ALL wish we would have had!! Now you do!!!

Awesome Bonus #4

Founding Members will receive FREE, PRIVATE ACCESS ACCOUNTS for up to 5 of their team members! Each team member will receive their own account so that you can track their progress, and they’ll also be able to receive CE credits!

They’ll receive access to the Myofunctional Training Tutorials TOO!!!

And if you have a team member “move on to other opportunities” (either by their choice or yours) you’ll be able to swap out their account for the new team member—TRY THAT with a traditional weekend course or some other training that you pay for your staff to attend!

The three of us have all “paid to train someone else’s future employee.” Have you?

Well… not this time.

Awesome Bonus #5

Founding members will be able to participate in our “Virtual Team Training sessions.”

It’s one thing for your team to watch the incredible videos that were meant for you, the doctor, but it’s a completely different thing for your team to have access to training that WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THEM! We’ve trained our team, now let us train yours—AGAIN, NO TRAVEL REQUIRED OR COSTS OF BRINGING IN EXPENSIVE CONSULTANTS. And you can use this training over and over, with each new hire, or as a refresher, or for team meetings, etc., etc.

Pretty Awesome Bonuses, Right?!

But only for our Founders… so please join us as a Founding Member.

Please go to ASAPPathway.com/join now!

ALERT: ASAP Pathway Tuition, Starting 2021

Starting in 2021 ASAP Pathway will be offered as two separate components: Education and Implementation

Education Package:

Includes all core content videos (over 40 hours of AGD CE) with LIFETIME access. This is basically “a weekend course on steroids!”

One time payment of $5200

Implementation Package (only available as an add on to the Education Package):

Includes
• Private Facebook Mentoring Group
• Quick Bites How to videos
• Myofunctional Therapy Program
• Zoom Meetings Plus Zoom Meeting Archives
• Lecture PDF’s and Slides
• Document Center
• Team Training Videos
• Annual Updates

First year payment of $3400, then $2499 per year thereafter*

(*additional years tuition are subject to annual increases as content and options change)

So, to recap…

The Founding Member Offer, extended through 2020, gives you ALL of the content of ASAP Pathway and all 5 awesome bonuses, with lifetime access of the core on-demand educational content, for only 6 payments of $1375 or a single payment of $7975, with the 2nd year FREE. Additional years, starting in year 3, are LOCKED IN at $1499 per year.

As of 2021 you will be able to join as an Education Member or an Education Member + Implementation. The Education Member tuition will be a one time payment of $5200 and will include lifetime access to the on-demand video content. The Implementation Package will be an additional $3400 (or $8600 total), and then $2499 per year thereafter to maintain the Implementation Package benefits.

Clearly, if you are in a position financially to do so now, NOW IS THE TIME to Join and have all of the benefits of being a Founding Member, at the lowest tuition.

Thank You!!!

As we begin this exciting journey together we just want to thank you for your interest in helping more children with airway, sleep, growth and development issues. We have been richly rewarded personally and in our practices as we have focused more on this often overlooked and neglected but critically important segment of our society.

Imagine the ultimate impact of helping a single child who then goes on to impact thousands of other people in their lifetime.

Now multiply that impact by hundreds or even thousands of children.

You can do this!

We can help.

You’re not alone.

Please join us as a Founding Member and invest in the futures of children and youth in your area, and perhaps in your own home.

Please go to asappathway.com/join and make the commitment now.

Helping you help the next generation,

Tracey Nguyen
Michelle Weddle
Stacy Ochoa

P.S. If you don’t join as a Founding Member there WILL be other opportunities to join ASAP. However, you will miss out on receiving the 2nd year for free (a $1499 value) and joining at the lowest tuition. Becoming a Founding Member has been extended through 2020 due to the Coronavirus crisis and its impact, but will not be offered in 2021. Please don’t miss out on this literally once in a lifetime opportunity that is only being offered to select dentists.