Splint therapy: 5-day practice

A 5-day practice on splint therapy with Gregor Slavicek is the most powerful practical training on this topic!

Be prepared for theory, demonstrations and PRACTICE.

During 5 days of training you will:

– study all stages of working with splints: diagnosis, intermediate control, final stages of treatment
– learn the protocols of splint therapy for temporomandibular disorder, orofacial pain, displacement of the articular disc, bruxism
– work out a full protocols of muscle palpation and condylography
– manufacture different types of splints under the supervision of professor Slavicek.

IMPORTANT: Coffee breaks and lunches are included in the price.

The venue of the event: Sheraton City Hotel, Istanbul, Turkey.

PROGRAM

– The Theory of Intra oral Splints
– Main Splint Indications
– Typical Splint Designs
– The actual scientific evidence: Review of the literature
– Upper and/or Lower Splints; High Angle/High Vertical Cases
– Case Presentations and Discussion, including Fabrication of Intraoral Splints
– Protrusive Position, Retrusive Control, Anterior Control
– Implementation and Equilibration
– Clinical Protocol:

- Night time or daytime? 
- 24 hours?, 
- 24 hours plus meals?

– Monitoring, Adaptation and Equilibration
– Muscle palpitations of the patient (Practical Part)
– Cephalometric analysis (Short version)
– Occusal index & Questions (Practical Part)
– Condylogrpahy Demo
– Practical part Condy (Practical Part)
– Articulator programming (Practical Part )
– 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.