Alan O. Blanton, DDS, MS, D. ABDSM, is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Dentistry. He is a Diplomate with the American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and is the former Director of the Dental Sleep Medicine and Orofacial Pain Program at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Dentistry. In private practice, he devotes a large part of his general practice to the treatment of Sleep-Related Disordered Breathing, Orofacial Pain and TMD. He is a former member of the AADSM Board of Directors and has chaired the both Board Review Course and the Advanced Course and has lectured on behalf of the AADSM at the Annual ADA Meeting. He continues to lecture on Sleep, Oral Appliance Therapy, Orofacial Pain and TMD to State and local dental groups.