Dr. Susan Maples leads a successful, insurance-independent Total Health Dental practice in Holt, Michigan. Her first APDP meeting was in March 1994 and has only missed one since.

She brings to dentistry preventive and restorative 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 Brave Parent! Raising Healthy, Happy Kids (against all odds) in Today’s World.

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.

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