433 Temporomandibular Joint and Orofacial Pain Disorders Mini-Residency
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Feb 08, 2013 07:00 AM
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Time: 7:00 am - 4:30 pm on Fridays
8:00 am - 1:00 pm on Saturdays
Guided Internet Study: 4 hours per month
Units: 68
Fees: $3950
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Participants: Limited to 6
The mini-residency will take place over 5 consecutive 1 ½ days per month for a 5 month period. The mini-residency will be comprised of lectures on the temporomandibular joint disorders and clinical hands-on experience that will be comprised in examining, diagnosing and treating patients with TMD and orofacial pain disorders. Interest in TM disorders has gone through evolutionary and revolutionary changes. Consensus on the treatment of TMD has been slowly developing but there is still great controversy over appropriate treatment for these problems. This course will provide training commensurate with standards of care that have been developing in the academic communities around the world over the last 3 decades. The UCLA TMD Mini-Residency Program is designed to offer a comprehensive experience for the practicing dentist that will connect the medical and dental aspects of TMD. At the completion of the program, the dentist should be able to diagnose and treat patients who have a temporomandibular joint disorder and be able to recognize other orofacial pain conditions.
Course Topics:
- Basic science of pain
- Classification of pain disorders
- Review of Orofacial Pain including neuropathic pain and headache
- The physical evaluation of patients with pain disorders.
- Making a differential diagnostic list for orofacial pain
- Imaging of the TM joint. What is needed, what is not
- Medical conditions that can present as Orofacial Pain
- Sleep Bruxism
- What is Myofascial Pain.
- The Myofascial Pain Treatment Protocol
- Oral Appliances – selection, fitting and follow-up
- Neurosensory stents
- Medication management of TMD/OFP including headache and neuropathic pain
- The Psychology of Chronic Pain
- The relationship between occlusion and TMD
Faculty:
The mini-residency is under the direction of Robert L. Merrill, DDS, MS Director, UCLA Orofacial Pain & Dental Sleep Medicine Program
Other faculty as scheduled for individual lectures or clinic supervision