Evidence Based, Practical Management of Orofacial Pain and TMD for the General Dentist. Occlusion and parafunctional control for everyday dentistry

Occlusion and parafunctional control for everyday dentistry! This evidence-based seminar offers a practical and effective approach to diagnosing and managing orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders, led by Barry Glassman — a passionate educator and Diplomate of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine.

You will finally discover the truth about occlusion, TMD, and orofacial pain — understanding when it matters and why!

Program details:

– Practical, evidence-based strategies for diagnosing and managing orofacial pain, TMD, and chronic pain patterns
– How to design and evaluate occlusal appliances, including the anterior midpoint stop appliance concept, avoid common side effects, and improve patient compliance
– The dentist’s critical role in treating migraines, headaches, and non-dental pain through functional diagnostics and therapy
– How to recognize and manage complex patient cases, including occlusal dysesthesia and “occlusal neurotics” without unnecessary adjustments.

This course-seminar removes the controversy, exposes the myths, and presents a reality that is both practical and evidence-based for dentists of all specialties.

It’s the ONLY occlusion course you will EVER need to take!

Note:  Seminar fees include full breakfast and lunch Friday and Saturday as well as access to all relevant literature and relevant office forms.  In addition there will be a pre course Zoom meeting announced,  pre course literature distributed, and a post course Zoom meeting for follow up questions and case reports.  

DETAILED PROGRAM

Day 1

7:00 – 8:00
Registration and full breakfast.

8:00 – 12:00
- The empirical nature of the “science of occlusion” in dentistry
- Critical evaluation of the goals of occlusion including stability
- 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 or symptoms that lead to immediate referral
- Practical anatomy and physiology
- Muscle activity in parafunction; anterior midpoint stops.

19:00
- Llight dinner and wine at Barry and Sharon’s home.

Day 2

7:00 – 8:00
Registration and full breakfast

8:00 – 12:00
- Review of day one
- 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 course wrap-up.

Bullet points:
When to use an appliance?
What is the purpose of the appliance (and no — it is not to position the condyle to recapture the disk!!)
How to evaluate the success of the appliance 
What are the potential side effects of appliance use?
Why are night guards often not worn — and what is the mechanism of the appliance of choice?
When occlusion matters – and more importantly; when it doesn’t!
Why we NEVER diagnose “TMD” and how to use more specific diagnostically driven therapy.
Design of occlusal night guards – when to make them – and more importantly, when not to!
What is the most common cause of non-compliance of night guards and how to avoid that problem.
Why occlusal night guards can cause headaches and joint pain!
Practical anatomy and physiology of the joints and muscles – and why they matter!
Headache and migraine pathophysiology and treatment that can truly change your patient’s lives!
The myths of dentistry that never really made any sense anyway!
Why do some patients with cross bites and other malocclusions present with pain and others don’t.
That Travel’s concepts of interferences causing lateral pterygoid spasms have been debunked and replaced with a more reliable model. Learn the “Adaptive Theory Model” and begin to apply the concepts immediately.
What causes those nasty clicks; and what to do and when we need to do it!
What joint position should be considered when contemplating major dentistry – you’ll be surprised!
Practice management concepts that could change your life and help you enjoy dentistry even more!
To diagnose and understand chronic pain patterns – so that dental pain without a clear cause is more readily understood and treated and not blamed on the “pathologic articulating paper dot”!.