Dentists: Why should you load test the TMJ’s?
Properly loading the joints tells you several things about the root cause of some patients’ problems. This will also determine how functionally stable the patients is. Let’s start with the […]
Why am I experiencing clinical failure?
If we’ve been practicing for any length of time at all, we’re going to see some clinical failures. I think sometimes the perception is if we’re faculty at The Dawson […]
Do we need to treat non-symptomatic joint clicking?
Do we have to treat every noise or click that we observe in our patients? And the answer is not necessarily. What I am going to say is we always […]
How to stabilize the joints
If we have a symptomatic TMD patient and are trying to figure out, can we make this patient better or comfortable? How can we stabilize the joints?
What do I do with patients that have TMJ pain?
So what do we do with the patient that has TMJ pain or has TMD? So this is the symptomatic patient now. So kind of what we’ll say is kind […]
Dental Webinar: Is Splint Therapy Always a Safe Treatment Option?
Splints are more than just a piece of plastic you give to patients when you don’t know what else to do with them Occlusal splint therapy can be a great […]
Dentists: Why do we ask “Has your jaw ever locked open or closed?”
Why do we ask for the patient’s TMJ history as a part of our complete exam? Particularly, why do we ask a history of open or closed lock?
What can TMD have to do with airway?
The question comes up, what does airway have to do with TMD or what does TMD have to with airway problems? And the answer is sometimes there’s very little overlap, […]
When to use an NTI appliance and when not to
Hi, everybody. My name is Dr. Leonard Hess. I am one of the senior faculty members here at the Dawson Academy, and I would like to take a few minutes […]
That headache might be telling you something
Millions of people suffer from headaches. It has been estimated that over 50% of them are actually of dental origin. We know from Williams and Lundquist EMG studies, as well […]
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