Waterloo District Dental Society

Join us for a conversation to learn how added sugars impact diet quality, oral disease, and systemic disease. Strategies for diet-related oral health screening and counseling to reduce added sugars intake and improve diet quality will consider environmental enablers facilitating and barriers precluding patient engagement. Knowledge of enablers and barriers will help the clinician engage in proactive conversations with their patients to improve both oral and systemic health.

1. To identify how added sugars impact diet quality and increase risk of oral and systemic disease
2. To describe chairside dietary screening and counseling to reduce added sugars intake and improve diet quality
3. To identify environmental enablers (i.e., low and no calorie sweeteners) and barriers (i.e., weight loss medication use, nutrition misinformation, food insecurity, water insecurity) impacting dietary intake.

Dr. Marshall is a Professor in the Department of Preventive and Community Dentistry at the University of Iowa. She completed her bachelor’s degree in hospital dietetics at the University of Illinois and her dietetic internship and doctoral degree in human nutrition at the University of Iowa. She practiced pediatric nutrition in the Center for Developmental Disabilities prior to joining the College of Dentistry full time in 2000. Within the College, she designed and implemented both the nutrition and evidence-based practice curriculums. In addition to teaching the nutrition curriculum, she currently serves as the Director of the Student Research Program and is the Michael W. Finkelstein Centennial Professor of Teaching.

Dr. Marshall’s primary research interests address the relationships among dietary behaviors including sugar sweetened beverage intakes, dental caries, and/or growth. She is also engaged in exploratory research to understand environmental and cultural factors impact caries risk via dietary behaviors.

Sleep Group Solutions specializes in bringing practical, hands-on education to dental professionals ready to implement sleep apnea treatment. This seminar provides dentists with the knowledge, tools, and step-by-step guidance needed to confidently integrate dental sleep medicine into their practice and begin helping patients right away.

1. Identify common sleep apnea signs and symptoms in clinical patients.
2. Demonstrate proficiency in hands-on airway measurement technology.
3. Implement oral appliance treatment and titration protocols for effective patient care.
4. Analyze medical billing and insurance hurdles to optimize reimbursement workflows.
5. Develop marketing and case acceptance strategies to increase practice growth.
6. Apply practice management protocols and tools to streamline daily operations.

John Nadeau, Sleep Group Solutions President

John Nadeau, a native of Gorham, Maine, has been a leading figure in the field of dental sleep medicine since 2002. Recognized as an expert in the Eccovision Acoustic Diagnostic Imaging System, he has developed clinical protocols that have helped practices successfully implement sleep apnea treatment into everyday patient care. John has personally trained more than 200 dental practices throughout North America, many of which have become highly successful leaders in dental sleep medicine.