Dr. Christensen said in Dentistry Today (Feb 2000), “The three major diseases we treat are caries, periodontal disease, and occlusion. Occlusion remains the major untreated disease in dentistry today. We probably treat caries too much, perio a little and we don’t even...
What is anterior splint therapy? Anterior splint therapy is a diagnostic procedure using a small bite splint that covers your upper front six teeth. This therapy is diagnostic because it gives the clinician a considerable amount of information about the health of your...
Dentists, physicians of the oral cavity have an increasing responsibility for the overall health of their patients. The relationship between diabetes and oral health; heart disease and oral health; sleep apnea and oral health; is only the beginning of the professions...
Dentists develop their own philosophy of how to best manage the occlusion of every patient they are treating. How they obtain their personal philosophy of occlusion is often from a combination of information from school, journals, lectures and experience. Dr. Gordon...
Habitual Force Patterns help to diagnostically evaluate the occlusion and get the true picture of its function and dysfunction: past, present and future. Chronic parafunction has a beginning and every patient has a force pattern. Digital force patterns tell us how the...
