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Last 2 places for LonDEC in October
We’re down to just 2 places now for the Intro 2 course at LonDEC on October 23rd/24th, so if you or any of your colleagues are hoping to attend please don’t wait too long before applying for places.
Glasgow has plenty of places left at present, but with 3,000 flyers about to go out in the next few days you never know how long that situation will last!
Latest Article: Occlusal Disease – The Diagnostic Phase, Part 1
Dentinal Tubules have now published the third article in the series I’m writing for them on Occlusion.
This time we have moved from recording symptoms and signs to the diagnostic phase, specifically using the TMD Questionnaire.
You can find the third article here: Dentinal Tubules (you might need to register with the site – it’s free – to be able to read it)
Click this link for a free copy of the TMD Questionnaire for your own use.
Business Coaches for Dental Practices
Do you ever have days when you feel your most valuable skills are wasted, whilst you spend your life doing less rewarding, mundane items of dentistry because it’s the line of least resistance?
We all do it, but then we’re not trained to work any other way.
We ALL need outside help to discover what it is we love about dentistry, and how we move our practices towards the goals that we set ourselves. Many of us will even need help setting goals, because without them it’s hard to know which direction to go.
Does FEAR adversely affect dentists’ clinical decisions?
When I posed this question on the GDPUK site we got a very surprising result – 60% of dentists who replied experienced fear EVERY DAY that they admitted affected their clinical decision making, and only 14% NEVER let their fears get in the way of making a proper decision. A sad indictment, and unintended result, of our increasing litigious and over-regulated society.
I submitted this question to the Shirley Glasstone Hughes Trust web site
http://www.dentistryresearch.org/
and the question came out “top of the pops” for May, which meant it went for Evidence Review by Chris Fox of Peninsula Dental School.
Read more…
3D Head and Neck Anatomy for Dentistry – special promotion price
Higgy and I are very impressed with the dissections and animations in this excellent package – so much so that we now recommend all our delegates to buy a copy, no matter what level you have reached. Even if you think you understand everything in this DVD we can assure you that you will learn a great deal from it, and you will have a very valuable tool for communicating with your patients.
We really wish we had had this sort of educational software available when we were trying to learn these complex, three-dimensional, anatomic relationships.
You can get a special discount of £20 if you enter “SDS” as the promotional code when you go to buy.
Link to the product is here. Read more…
BSOS, POS and IRS in under a week!
Well, it’s a busy few days and wouldn’t you know it? The hottest weekend of the year so far. I’m right in the middle of it having been down to Stratford-upon-Avon on Thursday to meet the BSOS people for a meal, briefly to see Jeff Okeson (University of Kentucky) and Terry Tanaka (University of Southern California) at the BSOS meeting on Friday, where I met up with Peter Nissler who had just arrived from Los Angeles to teach on the final POS weekend, called in to see Hig and Chris on the way back to Saddleworth, spent Saturday and Sunday running the POS TMD weekend with Pete and now I’m off down to Poole for 2 days of the IRS course.
Read more…Latest Dentinal Tubules Article
The second article in my occlusion series for the Dentinal Tubules online dental community site has just been published
It’s all about the signs of parafunction that you might just be missing.
If you’re not already a member you will probably need to register to see it, but that’s free to do and there are some great resources to be found on there once you’re in. Worth a look.
Waters Edge Ceramics launch new web site
Waters Edge Ceramics’ managing director John Wibberley has announced the launch of their new web site.
http://www.watersedgeceramics.co.uk/
This is the lab that provides all the laboratory support for our IRS and ARS courses.
GSK Talking Points 2010 – Higgy, Mike and John hit the road!
It might be election night, but the GSK Talking Points in Dentistry 2010 series is now well under way and visits Watford tonight, following Southampton and London earlier in the week.
Roy Higson, Mike Wanless and John Tiernan then move on to Falkirk, Newcastle, Leeds, Bolton and Solihul before finally finishing in Bristol on the 20th May, just in time for the big BSOS meeting of the year at Stratford-upon-Avon with Okeson and Tanaka.
If you don’t have tickets, it’s too late, they sold out weeks ago. Anyone going to Leeds will have to suffer sharing the place with 10 of our practice staff – do come over and say “hello”!
Occlusal adjustment using the bite plate-induced occlusal position as a reference position for temporomandibular disorders: a pilot study
It is just a pilot, but here is a Japanese study where 21 TMD patients have been treated with occlusal equilibration to what we would call “CR” (centric relation) and they call “BPOP” (bite plate-induced occlusal position).
They found a significant reduction in symptoms, but sadly there was no control group, so we don’t know if they would have improved by the same amount following appliance therapy but without equilibration. The authors do, however, suggest that it adds weight to the indications for a randomly controlled clinical trial, so hopefully we will see a more useful paper at a later date. Read more…
SDS Instructors
Roy Higson and Andy Lane
SDS Occlusion Blog 