Evidence-based treatment of temporomandibular disorders

– Anatomy of TMJ

– TMD: diagnostic difficulties

– Types of TMD treatment methods

– Minimally invasive treatments:

- arthrocentesis: indications and methodology

- arthroscopy

- botulinum toxin: indications and technique.

Recommended for: Functional dentists.

– Anatomy of TMJ

– TMD: diagnostic difficulties

– Types of TMD treatment methods

– Minimally invasive treatments:

- arthrocentesis: indications and methodology

- arthroscopy

- botulinum 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.

– 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.

– 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.

– 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.

– 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.

– 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.

– 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 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.