awAIR: 3-Day Airway & Sleep Clinical Intensive

At KILN Salt Lake City: 26 S Rio Grande St #2072, Salt Lake City, UT 84101‎

October 16th-18th, 2026

DAY 1 – Friday: Philosophy, Possibility & Clinical Lens

Theme: See differently → Believe differently → Treat differently

Morning (8:00 – 12:00) 

Science, Symptoms, Root Cause & Goalposts of Success

Science, Symptoms and Solutions

🡪 Scientific foundations

🡪 Root Causes

🡪 Goalposts of Success

8:00 – 8:45am | Welcome + Framing

• What is Airway Dentistry vs Sleep Dentistry
• Doctrine & Dogma
• Concepts, Strategies and Tools

8:45 – 10:00am | The Science of Sleep

• Beyond the Sleep Diagnosis 
• Sleep Architecture
• What is the Sleep Study telling you
• REM vs Deep sleep (brain vs body)

10:00 – 10:30 | Break

10:30 – 11:30am | Signs & Symptoms: The Clues

• What patients report vs what we see clinically
• The “Doctor of the Jaw” Paradigm
• Why airway is being missed in modern dentisty
• Dental indicators of airway dysfunction

11:30 – 12:00pm | Root Cause

• Craniofacial development (0–12 yrs)
• Why are we here
• Environmental vs Genetic factors 

12:00pm – 1:00pm | Lunch

1:00pm – 2:00pm | Defining Success (Goalposts)

• The 3 Pillars to Airway and Sleep Dentistry 
• What success is NOT vs what it IS
• Clinical indicators of a stable airway
• Long-term vs short-term outcomes

What’s Possible: Case-Based Transformation

2:00 – 3:00pm | Pediatric Before & Afters

• Growth transformation cases
• Behavior, sleep, and development changes
• Early intervention impact

3:00 – 4:00pm | Adult Before & Afters

• Expansion cases
• Functional + esthetic outcomes
• Health improvements

3:15 – 3:30 | Break

3:30 – 4:30 | Case Deconstruction

• Identifying “airway patients” instantly
• Connecting symptoms → structure → outcome

4:30 – 5:00 | Q & A

👉 End of Day 1 goal:
“I see it everywhere now—and I believe this works.”

DAY 2 – Saturday: Clinical Protocols (How to Do It)

Theme: From understanding → execution

Morning (8:00 – 12:00)

Pediatric Airway Protocols

Foundations

• Screening & diagnosis in children
• Identifying early airway dysfunction

Growth & Development

• Timing intervention (why earlier = easier)
• Muscle function → structure

Treatment Protocols

• Growth-guided appliances (Toothpillow, expanders)
• Myofunctional therapy integration
• Habit correction

Case Workflow

• Step-by-step pediatric case sequencing
• Avoiding common mistakes

Afternoon (1:30 – 5:00)

Adult Airway Protocols (Expansion + Aligners)

Adult Airway Model

• Reverse engineering development
• Structure first → function second

Expansion Protocols

• Indications for expansion
• Vivos / MARPE concepts
• Increasing airway volume & nasal breathing

Aligner Integration

• Airway-focused aligner design
• Creating tongue space
• Minimizing attachments / improving compliance

Case Execution

• Combining expansion + aligners
• Sequencing treatment phases
• Managing complex adult cases

👉 End of Day 2 goal:
“I know exactly how to treat both kids and adults.”

DAY 3 – Sunday: People, Process & Profit

Theme: Turn this into a scalable system

Morning (8:00 – 12:00)

People (Team & Roles)

• Building an airway-focused team
• Defining roles:
• Dentist
• Myofunctional therapist
• Team members
• Revenue models for airway practices
• Case presentation & conversion
• Marketing & patient education
• Building a scalable airway practice
• How airway fits into your current practice
• Patient journey:
• Screening → diagnosis → treatment → retention
• Case acceptance systems
• Clinical workflow integration
• Implementation Roadmap and teasing on-going support