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Adding services to your menu does more than boost your end of year earnings. When you add services to your dental practice, you are also helping your patients.  Adding cosmetic dentistry services is an excellent add on that existing clients will love. But so is dental sleep training.

Think of it this way, what if you added a service that attracted different patients from a different demographic? What if you took additional training courses to provide your patients with a better way to sleep at night? What if you helped people overcome morning headaches and dry mouth?

You can do all of that and more when you take the plunge and become licensed to diagnose and treat obstructive sleep apnea with dental sleep training from DSM Solutions.

DSM Solutions for Dental Sleep Training

DSM Solutions is your one stop shop for dental sleep medicine training. You can diagnose your current patient list or new patients who would have never scheduled an appointment. Those are the patients you would never have if you didn’t offer oral appliance therapy and other treatments.

Dental Sleep Training from the Experts

When you sign up for customized dental sleep training from DSM Solutions you will have all the tools you and your team need to diagnose and treat apnea. In the past, the only solution was CPAP therapy and surgery. Thankfully, dental sleep medicine for OSA has changed all of that.

What You’ll Get from DSM Solutions

DSM Solutions offers your entire team virtual and in person training for dental sleep medicine. With customized solutions that include billing, you will be amazed at how many people you will help when you add dental medicine to your list of services.

Dental Sleep Course Covering All Bases

DSM Solutions does more than show you how to custom make an oral appliance. The team from DSM also shows you how to diagnose using the latest OSA diagnostic equipment available. You and your team will also learn how to titrate oral appliances and how to advertise your new service to increase dental flow.

It’s All About Teamwork

It takes a team to implement a new service into a dental practice, especially dental sleep medicine. Every single person who works on your team will have access to the tools from DSM Solutions.

Best of all, everyone on the team will understand diagnosis, treatment and billing, not just the doctor. Because DSM Solutions has built the best relationships in the business with top diagnostic tool distributors, you, your practice, and your patients will reap the rewards as well.

Make a Change for Your Patients and Your Practice

You can change someone’s life and the life of your practice with dental medicine. Call or text and schedule a no obligation consultation with DSM Solutions today.

Dental sleep medicine is just as rewarding for you as it is for the patient. Contact DSM Solutions for more information regarding dental sleep training today.








Obstructive sleep apnea is a devastating condition that could be keeping millions of households all over America awake at night. OSA affects the back of the throat causing it to relax. When the throat relaxes, it narrows the passageways affecting the way a person breathes. Obstructive sleep apnea training is an excellent solution to help those people sleep better.

OSA doesn’t discriminate but there are some risks to be aware of which include:

  • Obesity
  • Snoring, although not everyone who snores suffers
  • Neck size for men it’s 18” for women it’s 16”
  • Being a man
  • Family history
  • Being post menopausal
  • Being diabetic
  • Alcohol use
  • Sedative and tranquilizer use
  • Facial configurations
  • Large tonsils or adenoids
  • Drinking at bedtime
  • Hypothyroidism
  • High growth hormone levels also known as acromegaly

As a dentist there is something that you can do about obstructive sleep apnea, and best of all, it can boost your bottom line as well.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Training for Dentists

DSM Solutions offers dental practices obstructive sleep apnea training. Unlike some solutions specialists, DSM also teaches you how to identify and diagnosis obstructive sleep apnea. This means you can treat patients who already have OSA and people who haven’t been diagnosed but suspect they may be suffering.

What is Obstructive Sleep Apnea Training?

Dental sleep training is a service that you can add to your menu. This service offers patients an alternative when it comes to OSA solutions.

DSM Solutions offers customized dental sleep training packages for your entire dental practice. Remember, just like your other services your team needs to learn protocol when it comes to dental sleep training and oral appliance therapy for OSA.

OSA Therapies

Before oral appliance therapy, people with obstructive sleep apnea relied on CPAP therapy. CPAP therapy has been used for decades but because it is cumbersome is often left on the nightstand.

If CPAP therapy didn’t work, some resorted to, and still commit to surgery. While surgery works in some cases, patients report that the OSA often comes back over time.

Oral appliance therapy for OSA has changed the way people breathe at night, and is an excellent remedy for people with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea.

All the Tools You Need for Dental Sleep Training

DSM Solutions offers small and large dental practices all the tools needed to diagnose and treat obstructive sleep apnea. Each individualized training program is customized to suit your needs and the needs of your patients.

The Advantages of Dental Sleep Training

While there are many advantages to dental sleep training, one of the biggest is dental flow. When you open your dental practice up to a different demographic, you are gaining more patients. Patients that wouldn’t normally seek you out. Those same patients will tell their friends and so on.

Dental sleep training is an incredible way to increase your patient base and your end of year earnings.

If you would like to learn more about obstructive sleep apnea training, call and talk to DSM Solutions today.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Adding new products to your list of services is adventurous and could be a wonderful new source of income. However, when you add a new service, such as dental sleep training, it’s even more exciting.

Oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea is an incredible product and service that people love, especially if the dental sleep appliance provider just happens to be a dentist as well.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Training for Dentists

dental_sleep_training_DSM_SolutionsThanks to Dental Sleep Management Solutions, you can add dental sleep training to your list of achievements. DSM Solutions works with you and your team to provide the best dental sleep training with both online and live courses. Best of all the DSM team works with you according to your schedule, not the other way around.

The Best Training for Your Dental Practice

As a unique training facility, DSM Solutions offers programs for small and large practices whether you run a multi city practice or a small country dental office that caters to a tiny township.

One of the best things about sleep apnea training for dentists is that it is customizable to your needs and the needs of your patients. Most importantly, it is geared towards the needs of your team as well. Adding a new service takes teamwork, especially when it comes to identifying obstructive sleep apnea.

A Step Further with DSM Solutions

DSM Solutions is more than a series of classes. In other words, you won’t have to pay multiple bills just to learn dental sleep training. When you sign up with DSM Solutions, you are learning everything there is to know about dental sleep training.

Each training session provides you with everything you need including support, billing, and diagnostic tools. With both web and live-based classes, everyone on your team has the opportunity to learn everything there is to know about oral appliance therapy for obstructive sleep apnea including diagnosing the disorder.

If you follow the DSM Blog, you will remember how dangerous and deadly OSA can be. Sadly, people who sleep alone may have no idea they wake up 30 times every hour just to catch a breath.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Opens Doors

With so many people suffering from mild to moderate sleep apnea, it won’t take you long to increase dental flow. Even if a patient doesn’t suffer from OSA, he or she will certainly tell family and friends about your new service. Obstructive sleep apnea training for dentists opens a new demographic and an entirely new profit funnel.

If a new product or service is on your mind for the New Year, call and schedule a no obligation consultation with DSM Solutions. It could change your practice and the life of someone who is suffering from mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea.

Call or click for a dental sleep training consultation with DSM Solutions today.

Adding new services to your menu is an excellent way to attract new patients. Every new item that you add will increase dental flow. From cosmetic and restorative procedures to oral appliance therapy and more adding new services to your menu is never a bad idea. Best of all dental sleep training with DSM Solutions can help you get there.

DSM Solutions for Your Menu of Services

Oral appliance therapy and other dental alternatives for sleep apnea will definitely bring in a new demographic because obstructive sleep apnea is more common in older people. With that being said, anyone can suffer from OSA making it even more attractive for your list of services.

Dental sleep training offers dental sleep training for dentists who are interested in helping people overcome the symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea.

What is OSA?

If you follow the Blog from DSM Solutions, you will remember that obstructive sleep apnea, also called OSA, is a condition that affects millions of people all across America. OSA causes the back of the throat to relax making it difficult to breathe. Firstly, these breathing cessations may occur as many as 30 times every hour. Secondly, most suffering have no idea they are dealing with OSA.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Solutions

Back in the day, the only way to reduce obstructive sleep apnea symptoms was with CPAP Therapy. CPAP therapy involves a mask hooked up to a hose hooked up to a machine. CPAP therapy is used every night, but because it is cumbersome and uncomfortable, most people suffering from obstructive sleep apnea will stop using it. Thankfully, all of that has changed because of oral appliance therapy.

Oral appliance therapy opens the back of the throat. This helps people suffering from OSA get a better night’s sleep. When you work with the solutions team from DSM, you will learn how to identify and diagnose obstructive sleep apnea. You will also learn how to treat it using dental solutions that are much less intrusive than CPAP therapy.

Why DSM Solutions for Dental Sleep Training?

DSM Solutions offers the best dental sleep training for dental practitioners. Using focused training sessions custom designed around you and your team’s schedule, you will be helping patients overcome obstructive sleep apnea.

Dental sleep training from DSM Solutions also supports you and your team during the training sessions with a unique program that is individualized for your dental practice. Because all classes are live and web based you are getting the best of both worlds from DSM Solutions.

One of the best reasons to work with DSM Solutions is overall health. Dental sleep training allows you to provide your patients with a service that treats not only dental health, but also overall health. Don’t forget healthy patients are happier patients

New Services for Your Dental Practice

If you are considering new services for your menu, call DSM Solutions. You will be happy that you and your team took on the challenge and so will your patients.

Call for additional information from DSM Solutions today.

Adding items to your list of services is always excellent for business. When you add a new service that is beneficial for overall health you are opening your practice up to a new demographic. Especially when you add oral appliance therapy.

Oral Appliance Therapy Training for Dentists

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Obstructive sleep apnea affects millions of people all over the world. You will also have learned that OSA can cause serious complications for overall health.

When you add dental sleep medicine solutions to your menu of services, you will see new patients. Dental flow will increase because oral appliance therapy is something that millions of people need.

The people that can benefit from dental sleep medicine may have perfect teeth or may already have a dentist. Consequently, these will be new patients that you welcome to your dental practice for the first time.

Why People Need Oral Appliance Therapy

Because CPAP therapy is the most highly recommended treatment for sleep apnea people presume it’s the best. While CPAP machines do work, they are cumbersome and uncomfortable.

After a few months, or as little as a few weeks, people suffering from obstructive sleep apnea give up CPAP therapy because it’s hard to travel with and hard to clean. Add those issues on top of the comfort problems and OSA sufferers usually keep the CPAP machine in the drawer choosing a bad night’s sleep instead.

Helping People Sleep Better

If you follow the DSM Blog, you will remember that sleep apnea is a massive problem as it causes other health issues as well. People who suffer from sleep apnea don’t get a good night’s sleep waking up as many as 30 times an hour just to breathe.

Breathing cessation is a huge problem and unfortunately can’t be measured by someone who sleeps alone. Most people wake up abruptly falling back to sleep just as quickly. OSA causes the brain to wake you up because obstructive sleep apnea closes the back of the throat.

More than Oral Appliance Therapy

With the dental sleep apnea training program, you’ll learn how to identify and diagnose OSA in patients. You’ll also learn how to provide the best solution based on your diagnosis and what you have learned from the dental sleep medicines training course.

You became a dentist to help people. Why not take it one-step further with dental sleep medicine training.

If you would like more information regarding oral appliance therapy, call and talk to a team member today.

 

 

 

 

Most practicing dentists enjoy adding products and services to their menu. While all services are beneficial to patients, the dental sleep apnea training course can help a person’s overall health.

Using oral appliance therapy for sleep apnea helps patients overcome mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea and best of all, it’s much less intrusive than CPAP therapy.

What Dental Sleep Apnea Training Can Do For You

Dental sleep apnea training from DSM Solutions teaches you everything you need to know about obstructive sleep apnea and how oral appliance therapy can help the person who suffers.

The training course is an essential part of every doctor’s toolbox, especially for those of you who are eager to delve into other alternative dental therapies for obstructive sleep apnea.

DSM Solutions for Customized Sleep Apnea Solutions

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Specializing in customized solutions for dental sleep medicine, the training courses give doctors and their teams everything they need to identify and treat OSA. All classes are web based and live giving you the support and individualized training and coaching you need to take your dental practice to the next level.

Dental Sleep Medicine Solutions works around your schedule so you can still run your business. Every program offered is customized and individualized to enhance your dental practice.

A Program to Fit Every Dental Practice

Every dental practice is different, which is why DSM Solutions are customizable. From an experienced OSA practice to extremely motivated beginners, dental sleep medicine helps you and your dental practice become more successful.

A growing epidemic, OSA affects billions of people all over the world. Research indicates that as many as 25 percent of your patients could be walking around with undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea.  Adding dental sleep medicine to your list of services simply makes sense. After all, your patients already trust you and listen to you 

DSM Solutions for Your Dental Practice

As a full service consulting company, DSM Solutions takes dental sleep medicine one step further by providing clients with additional tools that other firms don’t offer. When you work with DSM Solutions, the entire team learns how to use dental sleep medicine.

From billing to how each oral appliance works, you can be assured that you and your team will be ready. Especially when it comes to time to add oral appliance therapy to your list of services.

For more information call and talk to DSM Solutions about dental sleep medicine. You will be glad you did and so will your patients. Call for a no obligation consultation with DSM Solutions today.



Obstructive Sleep Apnea is a problem that affects an approximate 30 million people in the United States, yet only a small percentage are receiving proper care for their condition.  Dentists are a valuable resource to the patients who are seeking treatment alternatives.

Adding Dental Sleep Medicine to your practice is crucial in three ways.  First, you will have the opportunity to help fill a “hole in the market” for Obstructive Sleep Apnea therapy.  Second, you and your team will be providing your patients with a higher standard of comprehensive care.  Third, you will be offering a service that is not only fiscally rewarding, but morally rewarding.  The benefits will resonate through every facet of your office.

The “gold standard” of care is the CPAP (continuous positive air pressure) machine.  By increasing the pressure inside the airway, it prevents collapse from outside factors like the tongue, soft palate and excess weight around the neck.  While there are no therapy options more effective than CPAP, about 50% of patients prescribed one are failing to use it to the standard of care, if they are using it at all.

So where does this leave patients who are seeking better sleep and better health, but cannot tolerate the treatment they have been prescribed?

Oral Appliances are a highly effective, non-invasive treatment modality for those patients who have failed CPAP use, or are tested at levels too low to require more aggressive therapy.  When diagnosed with Obstructive Sleep Apnea, many physicians only give the patient one option for care, independent of the severity of the condition.  By bringing Dental Sleep Medicine into your practice, you will be able to assess each case and provide appropriate care to each patient based on their individual needs.

The good news?  All the skills required to fabricate one is already in your and your team’s wheelhouse as dental providers.  The best news?  Only dentists are allowed to fabricate Oral Appliances, allowing you to step in and help bridge the gap between proper diagnosis and proper care.

Adding new options to your “menu” of services is a valuable way to grow your practice, add production and include new, innovative ways to care for your patients’ overall health.  Dental Sleep Medicine is a subject patients, dentists and sleep physicians have been talking about more and more.  The signs and symptoms of Obstructive Sleep Apnea are everywhere.

As a dental health provider, you have an incredibly unique view into this condition … directly at the site of the obstruction, the throat!  So many indications are right in the mouth, a place that no other health provider diagnosing this condition looks at with any knowledge.  You and your team look here all day, every day, opening the opportunity to recognize OSA in your patients on a daily basis.

The dental issues you address the most, bruxism, porcelain failure, acid erosion, are all signs of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.  Identifying these patients immediately will uncover that nearly 25% of your existing patient base has Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and the large portion that are diagnosed but not using their CPAP.

Sleep plays an enormous role in maintaining our bodies.  We rely on it to restore our muscles, vital organs, brains and emotional health.  When you are not getting proper sleep, the risks are high and costly.  In additional to physical breakdown, like heart attack, stroke and hypertension, you are at a higher risk for depression.

By identifying and treating sleep apnea early, patients can prevent not only many of these health issues, but social issues as well.  An estimated 25% of people sleep in separate bedrooms because of snoring, a sign of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, and putting massive strain on relationships.

Both treating patients and finding patients the correct treatment plan will help your patients achieve overall health as well as mend emotional issues.  Providing patients with a therapy that not only works, but allows them to be closer to loved ones is a rewarding mission.  As dentists and dental providers, you are used to patients being afraid, in pain, or enduring procedures they would rather not have to go through.

When providing patients with high quality Dental Sleep Medicine, you are treating patients who want to be there and are grateful for both the services you are providing as well as the outcomes it will yield.  It feels good for a patient to tell you that you have saved their marriage, that they are closer to their families because they can finally stay awake, that they are getting a promotion at work because of increased productivity.

Sleep apnea is not a condition that is getting better in the United States.  Being a qualified provider of sleep apnea therapy will be a benefit to your patients and the public alike.  Many patients are searching for alternative therapies to their CPAPs as we speak.

All types of practices will benefit from adding Dental Sleep Medicine.  It fits comfortably into the schedule, can be spear headed from team member in order to keep the doctor’s burr turning and reaps generous rewards.  Implementing it is a matter of clear systems and protocols, as well as communication office wide.

Being a Medicare DME (Durable Medical Equipment) provider is an opportunity for you to improve your direct to consumer marketing, build your patient base and develop referral relationships with the healthcare providers in your community.

As a Medicare DME provider, you would be opening your Sleep Apnea patient base to include those 65 and older, allowing you to help more potential apnea sufferers and expand your direct to consumer marketing base.  Medicare covers oral appliances for patients who fall into the mild and moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea category or those who have tried and failed CPAP, a “target” potential patient base.  Many Medicare patients have been prescribed a CPAP even though they may have been diagnosed as having mild OSA or even primary snoring.  An estimated 60% of patients fail CPAP, meaning there is a large group of diagnosed apnea suffers either unaware there is something else they can try or actively seeking alternative treatment.  By becoming a provider with Medicare, you can help your patients of record, people responding to direct to consumer “Hate Your CPAP” marketing and physicians looking to make connections with healthcare providers that can give their patients a safe, effective, FDA approved alternative.

By marketing towards “CPAP failure” patients, internally and externally, you will begin to identify the sleep physicians in your community through reviewing their sleep studies.  Reaching out to these offices is beneficial to you in two ways.  Many of these physicians have lost track of the patient sitting in front of you.  When you begin to treat the patient and interface with their diagnostic physician, you bring them back to that office, not only providing this patient with the highest standard of care, but improving another healthcare provider’s practice.  This physician is not only an asset in treating the individual patient, but will open you up to a referral relationship with them, especially when you are a provider for the insurance that most of their patients have, Medicare, growing your Sleep Apnea practice exponentially.

Becoming enrolled with Medicare is not as scary as you think!  First, you would be enrolled solely as a Durable Medical Equipment provider, meaning that it would not affect billing for any of the dental procedures that you are performing in your practice.  Second, your medical biller can bill Medicare claims for you as soon as you get your provider number, or PTAN.  Third, DSM Solutions can help you apply.  Filling out the application can get complicated.  We are experienced with the system for applying to be provider and the information required to get you approved quickly and efficiently.

If you have any questions about how being a Medicare DME would work with your practice structure, marketing to attract these patient, interfacing with physicians or are seeking help with your application, please give us a call.  We are looking forward to continuing to help you expand your practice.