Oral Splints

– Review of the literature on oral splints

– Decision making: upper or lower splints? Which materials?

– Over the counter devices

– Splint design and splint fabrication in the articulator

– Application rules and instruction to patients

– Splint equilibration

– Splints for verticalization in case of occlusal deficits

– Splints in case of muscle hyperactivity

– Splint in case of internal derangements of the TMJ: ADDwR and ADDwoR

– Mandibular Re-positioning splints

– When is a decompression strategy is indicated?

– Vertical and/or sagittal walking back strategies

– Interim analysis – the correct procedure.