About - AAPMD

About AAPMD

At the core of the AAPMD (founded in 2012) is the conviction that optimal airway health is pivotal and achievable through collaboration. My vision for the AAPMD is to foster collaboration and unite all healthcare practitioners around a common goal of revolutionizing the health landscape for future generations. I see a world where interdisciplinary care and bridging the often-overlooked gap between dentistry and medicine lead to more collaboration between providers and better patient outcomes.

Howie Hindin

Howie Hindin, DDS

Championing Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Airway Health

AAPMD isn’t just about treating conditions; it’s about advancing comprehensive health through collective wisdom. Join us in this transformative journey. Collaboration isn’t just our strategy; it’s our ethos.

Our Commitment to Collaboration:

We champion “COLLABORATION CURES,” illustrating that multifaceted chronic diseases demand a collaborative strategy for optimal outcomes. We’re connectors. Our aim is to blend disciplines, like myo-functional therapy, physical therapy, sleep specialists, ENTs, and nutritionists, for comprehensive patient care. Initiatives and Offerings:

COLLABORATION CURES AIRWAY SUMMIT: A global confluence of practitioners and experts, emphasizing the collaborative approach to airway health.
FOUNDATION FOR AIRWAY HEALTH (FAH): A dedicated non-profit enlightening the public on optimal airway physiology and sleep.
AAPMD WEBINARS: Regular, free educational sessions on integrated airway care.
AAPMD LIAISONS: Over 40 members globally fostering local multidisciplinary knowledge-sharing hubs.
SECTIONS CATERING TO SPECIFIC NEEDS: Pediatric, Physical Therapy, Myofunctional, and Research divisions ensuring specialized focus and expertise.

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Promoting a network where health professionals from diverse fields unite, focusing on Airway Health, including Sleep Disordered Breathing and its links to chronic diseases.

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Upholding the legacy of pioneers who identified the dental-medical nexus. We share, learn, and adopt a cohesive approach to care.

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Ensuring timely, early interventions by training practitioners to recognize and address root issues.

Our Mission:

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Promoting a network where health professionals from diverse fields unite, focusing on Airway Health, including Sleep Disordered Breathing and its links to chronic diseases.

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Upholding the legacy of pioneers who identified the dental-medical nexus. We share, learn, and adopt a cohesive approach to care.

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Ensuring timely, early interventions by training practitioners to recognize and address root issues.

AAPMD Creed

The American Academy of Physiological Medicine & Dentistry (AAPMD) is an inclusive organization for health care practitioners and health care consumers to share information and work together for the wellness of individuals, families and society.

Practitioners will share knowledge and cutting edge information and work together to offer a team approach to patients. Health care consumers will benefit from having a database of practitioners focused on wellness, prevention and early intervention. Together practitioners and consumers will carry the message to improve health and wellness of our children, youth and adults.

In order to achieve this lofty goal and be an inclusive organization, members of the AAPMD understand that their practice parameters are part of a global picture of health. Everyone’s opinion can be freely expressed.

Thus AAPMD will attract, educate and train practitioners to diagnose and intervene with care early rather than delay treatment. AAPMD founding practitioners have learned from the pioneers who became aware of the dental / medical connection decades ago. Their message was largely overlooked for many years because it was unable to be articulated in a language that could be understood by conventional medicine and dentistry.

Today areas of sleep, chronic pain, issues of growth and development and athletic and intellectual performance require the diagnostic and clinical knowledge of many disciplines, The AAPMD’s initial efforts have attracted general dentists, pediatric dentists and orthodontists, physicians (sleep specialists, ENT, pulmonologists, cardiologists, gastroenterologists, pediatricians, integrated medicine specialists) as well as nutritionists, physical therapists, oromyologists, and hygienists. AAPMD membership is open to health care consumer members; patients, parents and educators who will benefit from AAPMD educational materials, courses and a team based referral network.

The AAPMD believes that all interventions should pass scientific scrutiny. Modern radiographic and physiological monitoring instrumentation as well as other laboratory tests will serve as a common language for treating practitioners.

As an AAPMD member your opinion will be respected and you will be asked to respect opinions of others. The AAPMD acknowledges that no one discipline has all the answers. Practitioners working together will improve the chances of success for both the patient and the practitioner.