(GMM) General Membership Meeting: Dentist’s Role for Sleep Disordered Breathing: Past, Present and Future ( Orthodontist Perspective) – 5/9/24

Orthodontists can manipulate and guide craniofacial growth patterns depending on a patient's developmental stages; therefore, it is important to understand which strategies can be used in conjunction with other providers to help create a team-based approach to care for patient with sleep-disordered breathing. She will present a multidisciplinary roadmap of craniofacial growth modification with the newest technique to achieve optimal skeletal structures and more reliable outcomes. She will go over the new scientific evidence to change the paradigm and discuss the future of orthodontics for sleep-disordered breathing.
Course Objectives:
1. Understand the orthodontist’s role in identifying airway disorders in everyday practice.
2. Learn the spectrum of available therapies.
3. Integrative and functional approaches to craniofacial growth modification: an interdisciplinary
approach
4. Discuss the key questions that will influence future directions of orthodontics for sleep-disordered
breathing.

Biography:

Dr. Audrey Yoon is a dual-trained orthodontist and pediatric dentist who specializes in sleep medicine. She has established the World Dentofacial Sleep Society and serves as a founding president. She is also a diplomate of the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics. She is currently a Clinical Professor at the Stanford Sleep Medicine Center at Stanford University and an Assistant Professor in Orthodontics at the University of Pacific. She founded the Pacific Ortho-Dental Sleep Medicine Fellowship at the University of Pacific and serves as a program director. She is a board of Director at Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists, Northern California, a Board of Director at California Sleep Society, and an International Board of Director at the Korean Association of Dental Sleep Medicine.

She completed her orthodontic and pediatric dentistry residencies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She also earned her Doctor of Dental Surgery and Master of Science degree, completing extensive research in Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) at UCLA. She practices the full scope of non-surgical and surgical orthodontics from pediatric to geriatric population for airway management including growth modification, pediatric palatal expansion, customized Miniscrew-Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion (MARPE), Distraction Osteogenesis Maxillary Expansion (DOME), Orthodontic treatment for Maxillomandibular Advancement ( MMA ), clear aligner therapy and oral appliances for sleep apnea.