The American Sleep and Breathing Academy - Part 2 : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1715

The American Sleep and Breathing Academy - Part 2 : Dentistry Uncensored w/ Howard Farran #1715

From Dentistry Uncensored with Howard Farran by Howard Farran: Dentist | Dental CE Speaker | Founder & CEO of Dentaltown.co

July 16, 2026 · 1h 7m

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In this episode, Howard Farran discusses the intersection of dentistry, sleep, and medicine with three experts in the field.

In this roundtable — part two of the show's airway and sleep series recorded around an ASBA gathering — Howard Farran sits down with three leaders working at the intersection of dentistry, sleep, and medicine: Dr. Luann Hall, a UCSF-trained "recovering pediatric dentist," minimally invasive advocate, and regent of the American College of Dentists; Dr. Manisha Witmans, a board-certified sleep physician, pediatrician, and pediatric pulmonologist who built the pediatric sleep program at Stollery Children's Hospital and recently learned she's been an OSA patient herself since childhood; and Dr. Janelle Crichton, an orthodontist and airway specialist whose practice ranks #1 in Canada for Invisalign volume and who is entering Stanford's Orthodontic Dental Sleep Medicine program as one of only six orthodontists in North America accepted. The conversation opens on a philosophy of preservation — the idea that a tooth can outlive us but rarely survives the drill — and Dr. Hall's case for minimally invasive care, arresting decay and remineralizing rather than cutting. She also introduces two ventures she advises: Auris DX, an FDA-approved salivary test for oral cancer often described as a…

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