NO SEATS! Splint therapy: a 3-module practical course

A six-month practice consisting of 3-modules on splint therapy by professor Gregor Slavicek — the most powerful practical training on this topic!

Be prepared for theory, PRACTICE, and analysis of your own clinical cases with professor Slavicek. 

During the 3 modules (9 days of intensive training) you will:

– study the protocols of splint therapy for temporomandibular disorder, orofacial pain, displacement of the articular disc, bruxism 

– manufacture different types of splints under the supervision of professor Slavicek.

The practice will take place in Moscow, Electrodnaya, 10. Rikom lab.

PROGRAM

Module 1

(April 25-27, 2023)

– Principles of a splint therapy

– Application guidelines: instructions for the patient

– Equilibration of splints

– Monitoring the clinical course of the splint treatments

– The theory of intraoral splints

– Main splint indications

– Typical splint designs

– The actual scientific evidence. Review of the literature

– Upper and/or lower splints

– High angle/high vertical vases

– Case presentations and discussion including fabrication of intraoral splints:

- Vertical dimension

- Protrusive position

- Retrusive control

- Anterior control.

– Implementation and equilibration: clinical protocol:

- Night time or day time?

- 24hours?

- 24hours plus meals?

– Monitoring, adaptation and equilibration

– Guidelines for the case selection which will be presented and analyzed during Module 2.

Module 2

(June 16-19, 2023)

– Indication for the particular splint

– Exact instruction for the fabrication of the splint

– Exact instruction for the application and equilibration

– Discussion of selected cases of the participants:

- Patients with muscular problem

- Patients with headache and neck problem

- Bruxing patient with vertical loss

- Patients with TMJ pain and atypical facial pain

- Patients with disc dislocation with/without reduction.

– Implementation and equilibration: clinical protocol

– Monitoring, adaptation and equilibration

– The procedure of the interim analyses.

Module 3

(October 16-18, 2023)

– Implementation and equilibration: clinical protocol

– Special splint designs

– Follow up of selected cases – the interim analyses:

- Patients with muscular problem

- Patients with headache and neck problem

- Bruxing patient with vertical loss

- Patients with TMJ pain and atypical facial pain

- Patients with disc dislocation with/without reduction.

– What comes after the splints? The next treatment steps

– Walking back strategies:

- Sagittal walking back

- Vertical walking back.

– Analog vs. digital manufacturing

– Analyzing failures and mistakes.