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2025 Speaker Series:

January 24

Integrative Dental Medicine:
Creating Healthier Patients & Practices

7L CE | AGD AGD 180 Myofacial Pain/Occlusion

with DeWitt Wilkerson, DMD

Friday, January 24, 2025
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Maritime Conference Center
Building 3 | Room A300
692 Maritime Blvd| Linthicum Heights

Lunch is provided

Seeing erosive wear on patients’ teeth? Are patients presenting with bruxism, sore muscles and headaches? Are they sleeping poorly, fatigued, snoring? Is it your responsibility to help them… and how? 

 

Integrative Dental Medicine emphasizes the golden opportunity for dental professionals to gain the knowledge and skills to begin addressing the dental patient’s complete health. To care for the whole person preventatively, not just treating disease as it occurs. Drawing from scientific research, expand your influence as true specialists in oral medicine. Learn the common links between bruxism, dental wear and malocclusion, headaches, dysfunctional breathing, sleep apnea, gastric reflux, ADHD and TMD that are rarely recognized in the medical community. 

 

Discover how you can help patients, neighbors and family. Gain a detailed checklist that can be easily incorporated into your practice immediately. Receive a decision tree for guiding the best utilization of splint therapy in dentistry. What is dentistry’s role in modern medicine? We have a key role in identifying and addressing several factors of accelerated aging and chronic health conditions that affect total health.

Course Objectives:

Participants in this course will gain knowledge in the following areas:

 

  1. Define Integrative Dental Medicine – what it is and isn’t. 

  2. Illuminate the benefits of treating neuromuscular and mechanical oral issues.

  3. Identify the risk factors and screening process for airway and breathing disorders.

  4. Describe the impacts of the 4Bs (Bacteria, Bite, Breathing, Body) on oral-systemic health. 

  5. Review the role of dental teams in managing integrative systemic conditions.

  6. Explain the issues in diagnosing and treating masticatory and breathing problems (separately and comorbidly).

  7. Access and employ clinical checklists of integrative dental medicine in the practice.

  8. Recognize the masticatory/airway red flags may signal a larger problem. 

  9. Gain fundamental expertise and current research to guide you toward successful implementation of integrative dental medicine in your practice.

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About our Speaker:

Dr. DeWitt "Witt" Wilkerson  joined Dr. Peter Dawson’s private practice in 1982 where he is a partner. This has provided invaluable clinical experience in a world renowned clinical culture. Dr. Wilkerson lectures worldwide on the subjects of restorative dentistry, dental occlusion, temporomandibular disorders, airway/dental sleep medicine, and integrative dental medicine. He serves as a Senior Faculty/Lecturer and Director of Dental Medicine with the Dawson Academy and has provided 600+ days of lectures and hands on instruction to over 4,000 dentists. Dr. Wilkerson is Immediate Past-President of the American Academy of Oral Systemic Health (AAOSH), Past President of the American Equilibration Society (AES), Director of Dental Medicine at the Dawson Academy, Adjunct Professor of Graduate Studies, the University of Florida College of Dentistry, and former Associate
Faculty and Special Lecturer, the L.D. Pankey Institute. Dr. Wilkerson has worked over 35 years seeing thousands of patients suffering with joint problems, bite problems, bruxism, headaches and sleep apnea. He brings clear, straightforward principles and systems that practitioners can understand and implement immediately in the care of patients.

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