AIR Institute Presents: AIR In A Day US Tour

To be on the cutting edge of dentistry, you must learn an in-demand and high-margin dental specialty. The AIR Institute presents one of the most anticipated, well-respected, and sought-after dental events today. This course is designed to offer something for everybody from doctors who have been treating sleep patients for years to doctors who have never started a single clear aligner or sleep case. We realize that everything to be a true expert can't be taught in a single day, but we have carefully crafted a curriculum that gives you a solid understanding of the basics of sleep/airway dentistry and places to look to further deepen your knowledge base. 

Dr. Geoffrey Skinner has achieved diamond provider status with multiple aligner companies and practices with a sleep specialist in his clinic. He has distilled and refined his experience into an easy-to-understand and implement technique that has developed from treating hundreds of sleep and airway patients using clear aligners into a system that can increase the quality of your care and the size of your practice.  

The largest market in dentistry is Sleep Apnea, dwarfing the size of the clear aligner market itself! According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, as much as 33% of people suffer from Obstructive Sleep Apnea, which is over 123 million people in North America alone! 

This means about 33% of your existing patients are already potential patients for your advanced airway training. We will teach you how to treat sleep apnea patients with an emphasis on using clear aligners to capture this immense market using the basic tools you already know how to use. 

Dr. Zelk has treated over 15,000 sleep patients and has delivered over 12,000 oral appliances throughout his career and is the person who is responsible for the creation of the EO486 medical billing code for oral appliances. Dr. Zelk is also the first sleep physician to start using combination therapy (oral appliance + CPAP). Dr. Zelk will teach you what to look for in sleep studies and how to effectively communicate it to your patients and other practitioners to send you referrals. Sleep/airway dentistry is quickly gaining popularity as people come to understand what it is we have to offer. Our techniques help patients live longer, happier, healthier lives. Once you understand what it is that we are actually offering and can educate patients about it, your world opens up significantly. 

You will receive the world’s most advanced sleep apnea training and education for dentists from world-renowned sleep apnea and airway experts Dr. Geoffrey Skinner and Dr. Joseph Zelk.

What you will learn:

The AIR Institute’s advanced training in clear aligners and sleep apnea is open to ALL dentists, even if you have never attended a previous module with us or even offer clear aligners or sleep in your practice. We have distilled what we normally teach in 3 days to a single day of the most important information we have to give. This will give you the perfect starting point to dig deeper if you want, or just simply improve your skills and understanding of how to optimize your current practices for the best outcome for your patients.

You will learn that profitably billing medical insurance from dental offices has become a virtual fantasy in the real world and what strategies you can use to work around this. You will learn our revolutionary fee-for-service, easy-approved financing for patients, and dental insurance billing strategies to drive profits for your practice more effectively, improving outcomes and patient satisfaction.

We will teach you how to turn your sleep apnea patients into raving fans that will recommend more patients and family members to your practice. 

We have developed a fee-for-service and dental insurance-based model that has transformed the sleep apnea space by revolutionizing the model where clear aligners are the first-line treatment,  followed by a mandibular advancement appliance that can be easily and cheaply made in your own clinic. 

We will teach you the most advanced clear aligner techniques to predictably achieve superior esthetics, function, and airway health as well as how to integrate smile design planning into your treatment plans. By the end of this course, you will be a clear aligner and sleep apnea master dentist!