Jeffrey S. Rouse, D.D.S. maintains a private practice in San Antonio, Texas and practiced with Drs. Gregg Kinzer and Frank Spear in Seattle, Washington. In 2017, he became a member of the Resident Faculty at Spear Education in Scottsdale, AZ. After graduation from dental school in San Antonio, Dr Rouse completed a 2-year General Practice Residency at the University of Connecticut Health Science Center. He practiced family dentistry for twelve years before returning to school. Dr Rouse received his specialty certificate in Prosthodontics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio in 2004. He is past president of the of the American Academy of Restorative Dentistry and the Southwest Academy of Restorative Dentistry.
Dr. Rouse has written numerous journal articles including a portion of the “Annual Review of Selected Dental Literature” published each summer in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. He has a textbook published in 2016 by Quintessence titled "Global" Diagnosis: A New Vision of Dental Diagnosis and Treatment Planning written with his teaching partner, Dr. Bill Robbins.Furthermore, he has contributed chapters on porcelain veneers and anterior ceramic crowns to three editions of a dental textbook. Dr. Rouse lectures nationally and internationally on a wide variety of topics ranging from dental esthetics to airway prosthodontics.
The hardest beliefs to change are those learned in dental school or residency. The first exposure to a concept seems to stick even when presented with new clinical evidence to the contrary. Dr. Rouse will present a personal journey of airway-induced problems found in three of his patients. All three were missed by the "normal" medical and dental practices and procedures. No one bothered to ask, "Could this be Airway?" Dr Rouse will also present the anatomic links to stressful breathing that can be resolved with dental procedures. Those treatments are typically the same ones proposed if you were focused only on the esthetic and functional concerns. Beautiful smiles and faces are heathy ones as well. By highlighting the health implications, it makes the conversion to treatment easier and your practice more profitable. Finally, this course has nothing to do with making appliances. It has everything to do with changing anatomy and, in turn, your patients’ lives.
Upon completion of this course, attendees should be able to:
Dentistry’s unique ability to recognize airway alterations before medical disease progression.
Detection of three cases presenting routinely to general and specialty practices.
Understand the impact of airway dysfunction on dental treatment planning of complex cases.