Your Ultimate CE Experience Awaits

Set sail on the Icon of the Seas from January 17–24, 2026, and join the Michigan Dental Association and Wisconsin Dental Association for a one-of-a-kind Continuing Education (CE) opportunity. Combining professional growth, tropical destinations, and luxurious accommodations, this Caribbean cruise promises to be an unforgettable journey for dental professionals and their families.

What’s Included in Your CE Cruise Adventure?

Dr. Susan Maples leads a successful, insurance-independent Total Health Dental practice in Holt, Michigan.

She brings preventive and restorative dental expertise, a passion for mouth-body total health, a master’s degree in business/marketing, and 35+ years of experience in private practice.

Susan is a Past-President of the American Academy for Oral & Systemic Health, and was named one of the Top 25 Women in Dentistry and one of the Top 8 Innovators (otherwise known as “disruptors”) in Dentistry.

She is the author of BlabberMouth! 77 Secrets Only Your Mouth Can Tell You To Live a Healthier, Happier, Sexier Life. And recently published a new book titled, Brave Parent! Raising Healthy, Happy Kids (against all odds) in Today’s World.

Susan Maples DDS, MSBA

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She is the developer of the Hands-On Learning Lab™ kit, an interactional science-based learning program for dental patients, and SelfScreen.net, an educational screening tool for patients and clinicians to uncover signs of illness such as Pre-Diabetes/Diabetes, Obstructive Sleep Airway Disorders, Acid Reflux, and Chronic Systemic Inflammation.

Susan was also a co-investigator in an award-winning diabetes research study entitled Diabetes Detection in the Dental Office.

She is also the creator of Total Health Academy, a robust online learning curriculum for dental teams to develop a complete oral systemic dental practice.

Gain valuable knowledge while relaxing at sea! Dr. Susan Maples, DDS, will lead engaging session on topics that enhance both your practice and personal well-being:

Earn 9 CE Credits

Sleep Tight: Integrating Practices for Sleep-Disordered Breathing and OSA from Cradle to Grave

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Supporting healthy airways have become the dentists’ privilege and responsibility! It’s true that for every 100 Americans, 26 will have Obstructive Sleep Apnea and only 4 know it. But it doesn’t start with OSA. There is usually a progression from healthy breathing to OSA that includes many factions of disordered breathing, midface insufficiency and muscle incoordination. Learn to recognize risk factors, screen, diagnose and treat breathing disorders from infancy to elderly. Your patients’ health depends on it. The disease implications of oxygen-starved and sleep-deprived conditions include cognitive dysfunction, ADHD, depression, anxiety, heart disease, acid reflux, obesity, erectile dysfunction and more.

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

Effectively screen for SDB and OSA in patients from newborn to elderly
Differentiate from physical signs and reported symptoms
Set up clear communication strategies for interdisciplinary care with appropriate medical professionals
Advise a CPAP or mandibular advancement device, orthodontics or corrective surgery •Intervene for babies and toddlers to predict and preempt SBD/OSA
Approach new advances in habit correction and interceptive orthotropics/orthodontics •Recognize the role of tissue restrictions such as tongue ties and how to correct them
Weave in the critical role of the oral myofunctional therapist toward lasting solutions

Slaying Dragons: Acid Reflux and Diabetes Detection in the Dental Office

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Out of the backdrop of America’s declining health emerge two fire-breathing dragons that destroy tooth and bone: Acid (Airway) Reflux and Insulin Resistance/ Diabetes. This presentation will help you recognize the oral ramifications of these two conditions. More importantly, Susan will challenge our acceptance of conventional “treatment” methods (i.e. medication) and inspire the dental profession to accept a more profound role in root cause analysis and facilitating health change behavior.

YOU WILL LEARN TO:

Identify the patterns of tooth loss from Acid Reflux
Understand the “silent” symptoms of reflux that precede heartburn
Uncover root causes of both, Acid Reflux and Type 2 Diabetes
Recognize the bi-directional relationship between uncontrolled Diabetes and active Periodontal Disease
Understand the pathology of Insulin Resistance and its progression to Prediabetes and finally to Type 2 Diabetes
Accept your role as facilitator and coach for preventing and/or improving lifestyle-related systemic disease

Healing the Healer: Creating Your Best Self

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Are you constantly caring for others but leaving yourself last? Do you end your days feeling exhausted or burned out by the demands of your work? Perhaps you’re feeling unwell, sluggish, or anxious. If so, this transformative experience is designed just for you. Spoiler alert: As health care professionals, we’re facing many of the same health issues as our patients—and we, too, need care and renewal. Today, we’ll explore the root causes of fatigue, weight gain, cardiovascular concerns, acid reflux, brain fog, metabolic dysfunction, and anxiety.

Susan will guide you toward meaningful, sustainable changes that can help you feel younger, more energetic, and healthier within a few short months. Why? Because you can’t pour from an empty vessel, and because…you’re worth it!

YOU WILL LEARN TO: