Airway obstruction, enlarged tonsils or adenoids, chronic mouth breathing, and sleep-disordered breathing are frequent drivers of downward and backward facial development, narrow maxillae, and persistent open bites.

Module Three of the Pediatric Dental Sleep Mastery Course opens with Dr. Yoon’s overview of craniofacial growth and development, covering normal growth patterns, indications for growth modification and how to integrate growth assessment into treatment planning.

See how subtle adjustments in jack screw placement can influence occlusal cant, and how combining MARPE with targeted Invisalign mechanics can address challenging open bites, asymmetries, and crossbites.

Module Two of the Pediatric Dental Sleep Mastery Course provides a practical, full-picture overview of the diagnostic tools and techniques essential for evaluating pediatric sleep-disordered breathing.

Traditional thinking often measures treatment success in terms of airway size alone. Dr. Yoon challenged this notion, explaining that airway collapsibility — not just volume — is critical in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)

Mastery Course Module One: Take this quick quiz to see how well you understand the key concepts from our recent Dental Sleep Medicine Course lecture and reinforce your role in shaping better outcomes for your patients.

Dr. Audrey Yoon’s path into dental sleep medicine began more than 20 years ago, during her orthodontic residency at UCLA. At the time, she was introduced to the field through her clinical director, Dr. Eun Kwon Paik, and neurologist Dr. Ron Harper, who were studying the impact of sleep apnea on the brain.

We are excited to welcome Dr. Hwang for an in-depth clinical session where he reviews three complex adult orthodontic cases, sharing his expert strategies, appliance designs and treatment planning insights.

Using real patient cases, Dr. Katwa walks through the limitations of standard scoring, why many pediatric sleep studies are misread, and how symptoms often tell a more accurate story than the AHI alone.

In this session, Dr. Audrey Yoon presents her No-Diastema MARPE Protocol, a slow, controlled maxillary expansion technique designed specifically for adult patients. She shares step-by-step activation strategies, integration with aligner therapy, pain management approaches, and real-world clinical examples where strategic skeletal expansion avoided invasive procedures.

This session focused on one of the most difficult scenarios clinicians encounter with MARPE: asymmetric expansion that alters the occlusal plane, shifts the mandible and triggers new or worsening TMJ symptoms.

This session delivered a comprehensive, clinically focused walkthrough of CBCT evaluation and its application in everyday practice. The content covered practical protocols for patient positioning, scan settings and informed consent—especially when working with children or patients with special needs.

As healthcare providers, we are continuously seeking effective ways to enhance patient health and well-being, particularly regarding essential daily functions such as breathing and sleeping. In this article, I will introduce two practical techniques that can be easily incorporated into daily routines to significantly improve breathing patterns and sleep quality: mouth taping and nasal irrigation.

2024 Latest Revision: This best practice asserts that the management of developing dentition and occlusion is an essential part of comprehensive oral health care and that early diagnosis and treatment of abnormalities can aid patients in achieving the goal of a stable, functional, and esthetic occlusion.

Through engaging case studies, gain a clearer understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of pediatric dental sleep medicine and the potential for improving the sleep and overall well-being of pediatric patients.