Reaching Your Potential as Dentists in Healthcare
Mark Abramson, DDS, DABOP, DABDSM, DABPM, FAACP

Dentists are in a unique specialty in medicine with our understanding of critical areas of health that have to do with the cranial mandibular system.

There are many areas that our health is dependent upon: cranial facial growth and development; neck and spinal posture; muscle health and coordination; balance; hearing; neck pain, and of course airway and breathing.

This presentation is an overview of many areas that you can claim as your role as a healthcare provider by expanding your understanding of integrative healthcare approaches. These areas include mindfulness, mind/body medicine, integrative concepts of acupuncture, and osteopathic principles. We will look at new treatments for speech and myofunctional therapy, balance dysfunction and appliances for treating the entire upper airway at once, including nasal patency and to throat function as well as mandibular repositioning.

Mark Abramson, DDS, DABOP, DABDSM, DABPM, FAACP 

• TMD and Dental Sleep Medicine
• Adjunct Professor, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
• Founding director and instructor, Stanford Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Clinic
• Graduate, University of Maryland School of Dentistry, 1975.

Dr. Abramson has been in practice of dentistry specializing in treatment of TMJ in orofacial pain since 1978 and is a diplomat in the American Board of Orofacial Pain. Dr. Abramson has also been a leader in the field of dental sleep medicine and has developed two of the leading appliances used to treat sleep apnea, OASYS Oral/Nasal Airway System™ and OASYS Hinge. He teaches courses throughout the world on dental sleep medicine and as a diplomat in the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine. Dr. Abramson has lectured at the first meetings of the Japanese Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine in Tokyo, the European Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine and the Indian Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Abramson founded Stanford University Medical Center’s Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Clinic in 1995 and directs and teaches courses through Stanford’s Integrative Medicine Clinic, Health Improvement Program, and at Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Abramson is on staff at Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Abramson has presented stress management programs at the American Medical Association and University of Maryland Dental School and course to address the crisis in physician burnout for Stanford Medical Center.

1 CE credit available to AAPMD members