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Oral Splints: Diagnosis, Design and Treatment Protocols
Oral Splints: Diagnosis, Design and Treatment Protocols
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24
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Course duration
Course duration
8 h 15 min
Delivery method
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Google Drive Link, Offline
Course Overview
Master diagnosis-to-delivery protocols. Learn functional status exams, axiography/condylography, individualized articulator settings, and precise appliance design so your splints fit, function, and hold—predictably.
During the course you will learn how to:
- Conduct muscle and occlusion examinations
- Make a functional diagnosis
- Determine indications to a specific type of a splint
- Plan TMD treatment using a splint
- Reposition the mandible and change the VDO.
The course is for prosthodontists, orthodontists and functional dentists.
Full Course Program
Lesson 1. Splints - the crutches of dentistry. Intro and basic thoughts
Lesson program:
- Structures and functions of the Chewing organ
- What is our diagnostic and therapeutic focus?
- Individual clinical application of the splint
- The importance of the use of splints
- Synonyms for intraoral splints. Splint types and their characteristics
- Statistics about splints
- Dental splint prescription patterns
- What specialists use splints?
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 2. Historical review - the literature up to 1995
Lesson program:
- Supposed modes of splint action
- Verticalization and Costen's syndrome
- The discus-positioning effect
- The muscle "pacifying effect"
- The bruxism effects. Splint materials
- The effect of removing interferences
- The congitive-awareness effect
- Disc dislocation"
- Re-capturing"
- Relieve of the TMJ.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 3. Convergence of diagnostics, divergence of therapy, indications for intraoral splints
Lesson program:
- What does treatment strategy include
- Stages of TMJ treatment using splint
- Detailed indications for splint therapy.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 4. Concepts and terminology
Lesson program:
- Splints indication referred to muscle disorders: neuromuscular dysfunction, muscle spasm, muscle, spasticity, muscle splinting.
- Splint as a device: nightguard, stabilization splint, positioning splint, re-positioning splint, reversible splint, over the counter splints, reflexed splints, jig, sandwich splint, drum splint.
- Short term splints and long term splints.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 5. Systematic assessment - main concern and occlusal index
Lesson program:
- Systematic functional analysis
- Patient and expert: a possible and frequently observed discrepancy
- Subjective and objective of the treatment
- Medical anamnesis
- Questionnaires
- Occlusal Index
- Dialog and conversation.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 6. Comparative muscle palpation
Lesson program:
- Objective information
- Muscle palpation
- Groups of muscles. Types of movement
- Masticatory, tongue and neck muscles
- Comparative muscle palpation.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 7. TMJ palpation
Lesson program:
- Ligamental structures of TMJ
- Macroscopic anatomy of TMJ
- Incongruent structures
- Combined translation and rotation
- Stability of TMJ
- Border movements
- TMJ palpation points.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 8. Neurological screening
Lesson program:
- Cranial nerves
- Anatomy of cranial nerves
- Questionnaire for cranial nerves examination
- Headache and migraine symptoms.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 9. Analysis of functions - chewing function
Lesson program:
- Determining and measuring chewing function
- Assessment of performance
- Appliances and devices for chewing function assessment
- Steps of chewing function assessment.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 10. Analysis of the functions – bruxing
Lesson program:
- Analysis of bruxing facets in oral cavity and on the cast model
- Instrumental clinical analysis of bruxism
- Brux
- Checker application. Analysis of the results
- Correlation between occlusal discrepancies and aggressive periodontitis
- Graduation and clinical classification of bruxism
- Fundamental paradigm of bruxism
- Digital services for bruxism evaluation
- Analysis and evaluation of data received.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 11. Occlusion and posture - clinical screening
Lesson program:
- Screening of posture and balance
- Relation to splint therapy
- Adapted Meersseman test
- Hypermobility syndrome
- Chronic pain syndrome.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 12. Problem list and treatment strategy
Lesson program:
- Problems that may arise when treating with splints
- Involvement of occlusion on splint therapy
- Occlusal quality and occlusal functions
- Initial therapy and interim analysis
- Therapeutic sequence
- CMS system.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 13. Construction elements and decision making
Lesson program:
- Individual elements of oral splints
- Designing the occlusal surface of splints
- Deciding making about splint guide elements.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 14. Production of splints in the articulator
Lesson program:
- Basic manipulations and principles of manufacturing splints in the articulator
- Digital and manual protocols for splints manufacturing.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 15. Clinical application: looping in and adaptation
Lesson program:
- Success factors for treatment using splints
- Individual splints
- Splint adaptation and grinding
- Surveillance and monitoring of treatment.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 16. Verticalization rail
Lesson program:
- Changing the VDO as an element of splint therapy
- Application of multilayer splints
- Verticalization strategy. Vertical splints.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 17. Splints with a focus on myofascial problems, myorelaxation splints
Lesson program:
- Systematic assessment of the occlusion and muscles condition
- Myorelaxing splints. Elimination of myofascial problems.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 18. Basics of reciprocal clicking - including condylography
Lesson program:
- Reciprocal clicking. Symptoms and etiology
- Consequences of the reciprocal clicking for the TMJ
- Choice of therapeutic position for splint therapy based on the condylography data.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 19. Splints with a focus on the temporomandibular joint - anterior disc displacement with reduction
Lesson program:
- Pathophysiology of TMJ with displaced articular disc
- Dynamics of dislocation and correction of the articular disc
- Treatment of anterior disc displacement with reduction.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 20. Basics of chronic joint blockade - including condylography
Lesson program:
- Risks of degenerative diseases of the temporomandibular joint developing with disc displacement
- Differential diagnosis of anterior disc displacement without reduction.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 21. Splints with a focus on the temporomandibular joint - anterior disc displacement without reduction
Lesson program:
- What to do in case of anterior disc displacement without reduction
- Signals on condylography with a permanently displaced disc
- Treatment planning for anterior disc displacement without reduction.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 22. Distraction and compression - definition and therapeutic use
Lesson program:
- TMJ compression. Compression degree
- TMJ distraction
- What is synovial fluid for?
- What effect does mechanical pressure have on the structures of the TMJ.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 23. Special rails
Lesson program:
- Special types of splints. Placebo splints
- Flat splints. Their effect on the position of the mandible in the absence of guidance
- Difference in efficiency of arbitrarily or kinematically manufactured splints.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
Lesson 24. Walking back, final treatment strategy and therapeutic position
Lesson program:
- Retrospective method of the therapeutic position determination
- How to proceed to the next necessary treatment procedures.
- Recommended for: Functional dentists, Prosthodontists, Orthodontists.
