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Orofacial Pain Beyond Teeth
Orofacial Pain Beyond Teeth
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Professors
Professors
Steven Bender, Daniele Manfredini
Target audience
Target audience
Nb of lessons
Nb of lessons
7
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Course duration
Course duration
4 h 50 min
Delivery method
Delivery method
Google Drive Link, Offline
Course Overview
Discover the hidden potential of orofacial pain analysis and the consequences of this condition on your patients’ general health.
Who the course is for: the course is recommended to all implantologists, orthodontists and general dentists who want to break into the world of orofacial pain management and upgrade their daily practice.
Orofacial pain is often misunderstood and misdiagnosed, and many dentists lack the knowledge and expertise to offer effective treatment solutions. This course aims to provide you with the insights, tools, and tips & tricks you need to intercept orofacial pain and turn your practice into a point of reference for patients suffering from this condition.
From preliminary analysis and diagnosis to cutting-edge treatment strategies, get ready to learn from two of the world’s leading experts on the subject and upgrade your daily practice.
The lessons of this video course were filmed at the Orofacial Pain Beyond Teeth.
From Diagnosis to Treatment congress organized by the GSID Association and held in Carrara, Italy, in 2022.
Topics covered in the course:
- The different facets of orofacial pain
- The importance of psyche and psychological factors TMJ disorders diagnosis
- Patient-specific treatment planning
- Patient triage: how to quickly figure out what’s going on.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Deepen your knowledge of a condition that has yet to be fully explored by dentists
- Open the doors of your clinic to a wider number of patients in need of urgent help
- Turn your practice into a point of reference for patients with orofacial pain
- Create and fix the steps to be followed in the preliminary diagnostic phase
- Properly palpate muscles to diagnose temporomandibular disorders
- Conservatively manage patients with TMJ pain and clicking.
Full Course Program
From general dentistry to orofacial pain specialist
In this first and introductory video lecture, Dr. Bender will discuss how to understand the various facets of orofacial pain by a medical and psycho-social point of view. The importance of specializing in the management of orofacial pain in an environment where so many patients visit different specialists unnecessarily before going to the right specialist will also be explained.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- The proper physical examination: nerves, muscle palpation and TMJ disorders
- TMD risk factors
- Palpation of the muscles to properly diagnose orofacial pain disorders
- How to understand how different people manage orofacial pain
- The relevance of quality sleep sessions
Dentistry and temporomandibular disorders: from gnathology to pain practice
In this video lecture, Prof. Dr. Manfredini stressed the importance of the psycho-social aspect for diagnosing and managing orofacial pain.
Several clinical cases will be shown and useful tips for improving TMD diagnosis skills.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- How have things evolved in the gnathological clinical field
- The importance of psyche in patients with orofacial pain
- The evolution of TMJ disorders classification systems
- Why is anxiety a TMJ pain risk factor?
Treatment algorithms in orofacial pain
Which is the best treatment plan for a patient suffering from orofacial pains?
Dr. Bender shows different clinical cases and and indicates the rationale for choosing the best treatment strategy for each of them..
Particular attention is be paid to explaining how to ask the patient the correct questions to obtain a valid diagnosis.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- Data gathering and physical examinations
- The importance of perform different diagnostic tests
- What to do when facing cluster headache patients
- Non-pharmacological treatments and other possible future treatments
Triaging the orofacial pain patient
It can be difficult to determine the exact cause of orofacial pain. For this reason, the goal of this video lecture is to explain how to diagnose and treat the underlying condition of orofacial pain, finding the right solution for effective long-term relief in the fastest way possible. Different useful examination procedures are shown in this video lecture.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- Non-teeth related and non-odontogenic orofacial pains
- Common descriptors of muscle and neuropathic pain
- The relation between stress and pain
- Masticatory system, head and neck physical examination
- How to properly palpate muscles to diagnose TMD
Temporomandibular disorders today
In this video lecture, Prof. Manfredini will discuss in detail the different possible classifications of temporomandibular disorders.
There will be space for the analysis of the supposed effectiveness of orthodontic treatments for TMD.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- Different types of TMD classifications
- The value and effectiveness of orthodontic treatments on TMD management
- Psychosocial assessment: a key factor
- Predictive value of clinical findings for TMJ effusion
Case discussions
In this very practical and illustrative video lecture, Dr. Bender discusses several clinical cases that will help participants fix the theoretical concepts discussed in the previous lectures.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- How to interpret pain descriptors such as shooting, stabbing and tingling
- The differences between classical and secondary trigeminal neuralgia
- How to manage orofacial pain patients with no apparent pathologies
Temporomandibular disorders: clinical cases
In this last video lecture, Prof. Manfredini explains which aspects of orofacial pain management dentists are responsible for, with a particular focus on how to perform treatments conservatively.
In particular, this lecture focuses on the following topics:
- How to conservatively manage clicking
- Several clinical cases of patients incorrectly treated by other professionals
- The rationale behind a total TMJ replacement for managing a clicking patient
