Instructor Name: Duane Grummons, DDS, MSD
Board Certified Orthodontist
Title: Orthodontics and TMD ~ Sense and Nonsense
Description and Course Outline:
- Ortho causes TMD? Ortho cures TMD? Neither?
- Subgroups of dysfunction patients must be distinguished
- Eval, imaging and splint considerations
- What matters when in ortho treatment?
- Articular, musculoskeletal, parafunction, psychogenic
- Braces are not for pain
- Patients differ and this influences care
- Orthodontics and interdisciplinary management explained
Educational Objectives:
- Individualized treatment based upon specific diagnoses
- Youth and adults ~ differential therapies described
- Skeletal jaw disharmonies and bite consequences identified
- Asymmetry aspects ~ structural, functional and malocclusion
- Jaw orthopedics, brackets/Invisalign and beyond