Online Dental CPD

Professional Dental Education about prescription Anti-Snoring Devices (with 1-2-1 mentoring)

And built in business development

Our user-friendly online platform is easy to navigate and offers paper course certification.

For each course you will have access to the information modules in the form of videos, PDF downloads and a set of multiple choice questions.

All online CPD courses provide you with 7 hours of enhanced GDC verifiable CPD.

This course is intended to keep you within the bounds of your professional indemnity insurance, by teaching you how to screen and recognise OSA symptoms (amongst other things!).

You can begin straight away ↗ in our online school and later opt for mentoring (phone and/or in your practice) as you wish.

Snorer.training’s dental education or ‘Continuing Professional Development (CPD)’ has been lovingly created by our highly skilled and experienced dental trainer:

Adrian Zacher MBA

Author, Snoring and Sleep Apnoea Care Navigator

I teach healthcare professionals how to help their patients stop snoring; sleep and breathe at the same time.

We believe dentists have a vital role to play, as part of the sleep-patient care team, recognising sleep apnoea symptoms and managing snoring patients. 

Our on-line and on-demand CPD courses have been developed from face-2-face CPD courses delivered by Adrian at Section 63 and British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine – BSDSM courses, across the UK since 1996.

Hundreds of dentists have learnt how and when to safely provide anti-snoring devices. 

Now you can too.

At a time and place of YOUR choosing, because on-demand e-learning provides updated, peer-reviewed CPD that fits around YOU and your commitments.

Outcomes:

UK specific online CPD

Do the UK specific CPD course to learn:

• How to screen patients and identify those who are safe to treat without a prior medical diagnosis²
• Recognise those who need further investigation

By learning How and When to provide this increasingly popular therapy, you become eligible for UK professional indemnity insurance cover from both the DDU³ and DPL⁴, because the Snorer.training (UK) curriculum has been created in-line with the Association of Respiratory Technology and Physiology’s (ARTP UK) Standards of Care⁵ ↗ content requirements.

Ongoing support

All courses gain enhanced CPD and enjoy ongoing support in a private FaceBook group ↗ and we offer business development and 1-2-1 mentoring by phone or IN-YOUR-PRACTICE.

Enhanced CPD 

The complete Snorer.training e-learning (UK course) meets the criteria set by the GDC for 7 hours of Enhanced and Verifiable CPD (eCPD). See our quality control procedures.

All dentist registrants with a GDC number, who complete the course, will receive a paper course certificate stating the course aims, objectives and hours studied.

Independent, evidence-based content

Snorer.training content (as are our Information Guides) has been created in line with the now defunct requirements of the NHS England’s Information Standard.

Meaning the content is evidence-based, peer-reviewed and independent of manufacturer claims. (We’re independent of any sleep business).

We have no bias towards our own mandibular advancement device[Because we don’t make them!]

Money-Back Guarantee

We’re confident you’ll be delighted with Snorer.training, so we offer a “30-Day Money-Back Guarantee” to ensure your satisfaction.

If for any reason you wish to discontinue using Snorer.training, we will promptly issue a refund.

Simply contact Adrian contact@snorer.com about our 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee.

Built in Business Development

Once sleep-trained you may request a listing (for free – value £199 p/a) in our pharmacist driven signposting tool. BMJ about saving General Medical Practitioners’ time. ↗ ⁷

Snorer.training Online and On-Demand CPD course
(e-learning) outline:

UK Complete

You will learn how to:

• Screen for sleep apnoea
• Help snorers immediately
• Get the protrusive ‘bite’ right
• Select the indicated custom oral appliance
• Build your sleep business
• Become an expert in a new field
• Build a network of referral sources

Course tutor 

Adrian Zacher MBA is not a dentist in competition with you.

He is:

• Founder of Snorer.com
• Co-founder & former CEO of the British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine ↗
• Instigator of the BSDSM pre-treatment screening protocol ↗
• Lead author of Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology “Sleep-Disordered Breathing” ↗, 2018, Elsevier Press⁵
• Inventor of Snorer.me Signposting™. See BMJ abstract ↗

More about Adrian

Adrian founded and ran Zacher Sleep Appliances (for 11 years) and pioneered oral appliance therapy when the concept was in its infancy. He personally made virtually every type of custom anti-snoring device available today.

Adrian co-founded the BSDSM with Dr Roy Dookun BDS. Then for over a decade, they taught hundreds of dentists across the UK, how and when to safely provide anti-snoring devices.

As with all the other information he provides, Adrian’s opinions are formed from decades of experience, actually working with a vast number of anti-snoring devices.

Even more about Adrian…

What are the videos like?

Here’s an example:

Its a technical and non-clinical demo about using the George Gauge™ (TradeMark Great Lakes Orthodontics).

What we do to help, educate and inform

Adrian is the principal tutor for Snorer.training.

As part of our drive for patients and partners to know sleep he co-authors (with amongst others 3 Professors) 5 free Information Guides.

These are produced in line with the now defunct Principles and Requirements of UK England’s NHS Information Standard ↗.

The Information Standard was a certification programme for all organisations producing evidence-based health and care information for the public.

Any organisation achieving The Information Standard had undergone a rigorous assessment to check that the information they produce is clear, accurate, balanced, evidence-based and up-to-date

Receive signposted snorers

Adrian launched Snorer.me Signposting™ in March 2019.

This CE marked clinical decision support system designed for sleep-trained pharmacists, assists them signposting snorers and those with sleep apnoea symptoms to the most appropriate professional.

In essence – benign snorers to dentists for an anti-snoring device and those with sleep apnoea symptoms or co-morbidities to their GP.

If you are a dentist prescribing anti-snoring devices and would like to be listed on Snorer Pharmacy you can sign-up (free) for a basic listing here.

We presented a preliminary research poster at the British Sleep Society meeting in 2019 and the poster was included in the BMJ Open Research Journal.⁷

Related: Our expert reviews and how-to’s

Adrian writes the Snorer.com blog, where he examines common (and sometimes misguided) approaches to manage snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea / apnea (OSA).

Here’s a selection of snoring and sleep apnoea / apnea ‘treatment’ related posts, we believe you will find interesting:

• What’s the Best Anti-Snoring Device? Sleep-Expert Review against the Top 13 Criteria
• How to prescribe oral appliances for snoring: Ultimate Guide
• More…

Evidence-based free, patient Information Guides

Grab our free Patient Information Guide about Mandibular Advancement Devices:

• “How to choose a ‘Mouthpiece’ to stop snoring“.

Adrian co-authored the Information Guide with Dr Roy Dookun BDS (former BSDSM President) and it is peer-reviewed by Dr Shouresh Charkhandeh DDS.

There are two basic groups of mouthpieces that may help with snoring by holding your jaw forwards.

The first group you can buy in shops and online, they are the so called “one-size-fits-all” type also variously known as non-custom, ‘self-fit’, ‘boil and bite’ anti-snoring mouthpieces.

The second group of mouthpieces or mandibular advancement splint is custom-made exclusively for you by a dentist with a special interest in sleep apnoea / apnea.

References

1. NICE CKS OSA Guidelines https://cks.nice.org.uk/obstructive-sleep-apnoea-syndrome#!scenarioClarification:1  [accessed 25th Nov 2019]
2. Stradling,J, Dookun,R “Snoring and the role of the GDP: British Society of Dental Sleep Medicine (BSDSM) pre-treatment screening protocol”, British Dental Journal 206, 307 – 312 (2009) Published online: 28 March 2009 | doi:10.1038/sj.bdj.2009.214. http://www.nature.com/bdj/journal/v206/n6/full/sj.bdj.2009.214.html [accessed 04 July 2016]
3. Dental Defence Union Position Statement, Snoring treatment, https://www.theddu.com/press-centre/press-releases/snoring-treatment [accessed 15th June 2018]
4. Dental Protection Ltd, Position Statement, Snoring and Obstructive Sleep Apnoea Syndrome (OSA), https://www.dentalprotection.org/uk/publications-resources/updates/updates/2014/12/10/snoring-and-obstructive-sleep-apnoea-syndrome [accessed 15th June 2018]
5. ARTP Standards of Care for Mandibular Repositioning Devices. http://www.artp.org.uk/download.cfm/docid/63B69B37-37E8-48D1-8A6B92749EDFDD1E [accessed 04 July 2016]
6. Sleep-disordered Breathing, Adrian Zacher & Michael McDevitt, Carranza’s Clinical Periodontology – E-Book: Expert Consult: Online, Elsevier Health Sciences, 2017. Accessible here: https://www.elsevier.com/books/carranzas-clinical-periodontology/newman/978-0-323-18824-1  [accessed 15th June 2018]
7. Signposting for snoring: does it optimise use of GP time? Online surveys of patients and sleep-trained dentists https://bmjopenrespres.bmj.com/content/6/Suppl_1/A47.2  [accessed 25th Nov 2019]