Syllabus for TMD, Occlusion & Parafunctional Control for the General Dentist

*Subject to Change

 

Day 1

7:00 – 8:00

  • Registration and Full Breakfast

8:00-12:00

  • The Empirical Nature of the “Science of Occlusion” in Dentistry

  • A Critical Evaluation of the Goals of Occlusion including Stability

  • The History of Occlusion in Dentistry:

    • How we got where we are

  • The Treacherous Path of Pain Management in Dentistry

  • The Stipulation of Occlusion: 

    • Parafunction - Proposed Causes

    • Occlusal dysesthesia

    • The occlusal neurotic 

    • How to check occlusion in restorative therapy  -- 

12:00-13:00  

  • Lunch

13:00-17:00

  • The importance and Techniques of History Taking

  • Classification of Disorders

  • Red Flags – Signs of Symptoms that Lead to Immediate Referral

  • Practical Anatomy and Physiology

  • Muscle Activity in Parafunction; Anterior Midpoint Stops

19:00

  • Light Dinner and Wine at Barry and Sharon’s Home

 

Day 2

07:00-08:00 

Registration and Full Breakfast 

08:00-12:00

  • Review Day One

  • The Clinical Examination including Ligament Insertion Palpations

  • The Truth about Muscle Palpation

  • Intracapsular Disorders – Case Presentation of Disk Displacement with Reduction’

  • Physiology and myths of Anterior Midpoint Stop Appliances

  • Diagnosis and treatment of ligament insertion injuries

  • Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Reviewed and a new look at “TMD.”

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-17:00

  • Review of the model of diagnosis and conservative diagnostic therapy

  • Migraine:  Physiology, Diagnosis, and the Dental role in treatment

  • Pharmacology; Most common supportive agents

  • Case Presentations and Discussion

  • Degenerative Joint Disease

  • Referred Otalgia

  • Migraine

  • Cervicogenic Headache

  • Therapeutic Protocol of Anterior Midpoint Stop Appliance Therapy

  • Summary and Review

Note:  A Course Follow up Zoom Meeting will be set up to review Pre-Test and answer any questions.