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Evidence-Based Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders
Evidence-Based Treatment of Temporomandibular Disorders
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Professors
Professors
Daniel Paesani
Target audience
Target audience
Nb of lessons
Nb of lessons
8
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Course duration
Course duration
15 h 44 min
Delivery method
Delivery method
Google Drive Link, Offline
Course Overview
A course for practicing dentists, who want to treat temporomandibular disorders according to scientifically proven protocols and not base their treatment on a specific concept.
The new course “Evidence-Based Treatment of of temporomandibular disorders" will present the 2022 protocols for diagnosis and treatment of this pathology. The course is created by leading gnatologists, prosthodontists, orthodontists, and maxillofacial surgeons.
You will learn about:
- Splint therapy
- Minimally invasive and invasive temporomandibular joint surgery (from arthrocentesis to TMJ prosthesis)
- Pharmacotherapy
- Physiotherapy
- Psychotherapeutic treatment.
Full Course Program
1. New perspective in the treatment of TMD: minimally invasive and invasive methods
Lesson program:
- Anatomy of TMJTMD: diagnostic difficulties
- Types of TMD treatment methods
- Minimally invasive treatments:
- Arthrocentesis: indications and methodologyarthroscopybotulinum toxin: indications and technique.
- The effectiveness of hyaluronic acid using in the TMD treatment
- Invasive surgical treatments:
- Articular (meniscectomy, eminectomy, condyloplasty, prosthetic replacement)non-articular (hyper development of the coronoid process, eagle syndrome, facial asymmetry).
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Сlinical TMD diagnosis
Lesson program:
- TMD: definition and epidemiology
- Evaluation of risk factors in the development of TMD
- Micro and macrotrauma in the development of TMD: bruxism, overextension
- The role of central nervous system in the development of TMD
- Psychosocial factors in the development of TMD
- Psychosocial profile of the patient
- Anatomical factors in the development of TMD: occlusal disharmony, abnormal condylar position and mandible
- Screening tools for TMD
- Standardized clinical examination.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Psychosocial considerations when diagnosing and managing orofacial pain, headaches and TMD
Lesson program:
- History of the medical community’s view of the role of psychology and emotion in the management of chronic pain
- Procedures and attitudes which considers the complex relationship of psychological and biomedical factors
- Specific techniques which deal with the psychological component of the pain pattern
- Identification and integration of biological and psychological aspects of pain
- Description of the biomedical and psychosocial models
- History of the biopsychosocial model
- The importance of psychological aspects in the treatment of patients with chronic pain
- Current state of the biopsychosocial model in pain management concepts
- Techniques to address the psychological aspects for the dentist
- Critical processes to make a referral without causing anger and without suggesting the patient’s pain is psychosomatic.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
The evidence-based protocol for management of patients with signs and symptoms of TMJ dysfunction in orthodontic and orthopedic practice
Lesson program:
- TMD: symptoms, clinical signs, X-ray"
- Occlusion — TMJ — Orthodontics": the history of the old paradigm
- The development of an evidence-based new paradigm
- Сlinical and radiological markers of hidden joint pathologies
- The effect of TMJ arthrosis on the growth and jaw stability
- Radiological markers of asymptomatic joint disease
- The influence of joint pathology during jaw growth
- The genesis of open bite, asymmetries, and crossbite
- Tips to avoid relapse after orthodontics-orthognatic surgery
- Asymmetric prognathism: diagnostics.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Mythbusting in functional dentistry
Lesson program:
- The evolution of CR over time
- Condylar position: norm and pathology
- Centric relation: mechanically thinking vs biologically thinking
- Occlusal interferences: what does that mean?
- Vertical dimension variation without affecting the intermaxillary relationship
- Hinge axis: facts or fictions
- Jaw deprograming: techniques
- Factors of occlusal stability
- Understanding occlusal instability.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Protocols for the TMD treatment: splint therapy, physiotherapy, pharmacotherapy
Lesson program:
- Management according to the patient-centered principles
- Evaluation of bio-psycho-social domain
- Stepped care model
- Principles of cognitive and behavioral therapy
- Protocols of home exercises
- Placebo effect in the treatment of TMD
- Oral appliances. Management of the occlusal splint
- Management of TMD before or during orthodontic/dental treatment
- Indication of surgical treatment.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Temporomandibular joint disorders. Сlassifications and risk factors
Lesson program:
- TMD definitions and classifications
- Etiology of TMD
- Signs and symptoms of TMD
- Temporomandibular joint disorders
- Normal disc relations and disc derangements:
- Disc displacement with reduction
- Disc displacement without reduction.
- Somatization and somatoform disorders
- Оrofacial pain: сluster analysis
- Modeling, remodeling and adaptation of TMJ
- Osteoarthritis
- Masticatory muscle disorders
- Masticatory muscle pain
- Risk factors – correlation versus etiologic predictability, occlusal risk factors.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
Management of Temporomandibular disorders
Lesson program:
- Management of patients with TMD
- Diagnosis DC/TMD: modern approach
- Methods of TMD treatment:
- Physical therapy
- Medication
- Behavior modification
- Occlusal splint therapy
- Surface electromyography and controversies
- Occlusal adjustment.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists.
