Sleep and Orofacial Pain

• Basic aspects of sleep.
• Interaction between sleep and pain.
• Sleep disorders associated with pain.
• Clinical management.

Cibele Dal Fabbro

Cibele Dal Fabbro received her dental degree, specialty, master’s degree and doctorate in Brazil. She completed 2 specialties (Orofacial Pain and Acupuncture) after completing a master in prosthodontics at USP – Universidade de Sao Paulo – Bauru School of Dentistry.) She has dedicated most of her career to the study of Dental Sleep Medicine (DSM), especially after obtaining her Doctorate in Health Sciences (specializing in Sleep Medicine) at the UNIFESP medical school.

For more than 20 years, she has been part of the interdisciplinary sleep group at UNIFESP and the Sleep Institute, both in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Her primary research interests are sleep apnea and sleep bruxism. Since 2012 she is the DSM Program Coordinator at the Sleep Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil (210h course) and some other short and online courses at Neosono, also in Brazil. She had her own dental clinic where she had worked mainly in the domains of dental sleep medicine, orofacial pain and prosthodontics until recently.

She wrote 3 books, among them, the first DSM book in Portuguese language (2009 and 2012) and about 55 papers in the sleep field. She is certificate by the Brazilian Sleep Board from the ABS (Brazilian Sleep Association) and former and past president of the ABROS, the dental sleep medicine Brazilian association. Nowadays she is an adjoint professor at the Oral Health department of the Dental Medicine Faculty at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

She is also linked to some research groups, such as the CARSM (Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine, CIUSSS NIM) and the CRIUGM (geriatric center research), both in Montréal. She is also the scientific coordinator at ABS (Brazilian Sleep Association), a board member of the WDSS (World Dentofacial Sleep Society) and a member of the EADSM (European Association of Dental Sleep Medicine) scientific committee.

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