When it comes to your patient’s oral health, keeping their natural teeth is an important key to better health but it can be stymied if they suffer from an occlusal disease. In fact, occlusal disease – a traumatic and pathological condition harming the masticatory system of the teeth, periodontium, muscles and joints – is responsible for most failures of dental restorations. Not only does it cause restorative treatments to fail but it is also possibly more costly to the patient than tooth decay and gum disease.
To better ensure tooth health, gum health, and support any restorative treatments, it is wise to learn how to diagnose and treat malocclusion in patients. This will not only benefit their oral health but increase the success of your dental restorations. Dr. Jose-Luis Ruiz is the leader of this kind of dentistry and has successfully treated his patients because of it. If you join us at the Los Angeles Institute of Clinical Dentistry & Ruiz Dental Seminars, you can learn how to give your patients the same level of thorough care and help them achieve their best oral health.
According to Dr. Ruiz, managing your patient’s occlusion will increase the success of your dental procedures, whether they are simple onlays and fillings, or dental implants, endodontic, orthodontic, as well as periodontal procedures. It also helps better diagnose and treat dento-facial pain.
Dr. Ruiz invites you to see for yourself by attending our 2-day Practical Occlusion workshop:
Implementing Occlusal Therapy Workshop – Level 1
Check it out here: HERE.
This workshop will teach you a comprehensive level of occlusion and occlusal therapy. You’ll make examinations to diagnose the seven signs and symptoms of this disease including how to take occlusal analysis records, mounted cast, CR bites, and much more. At the end of the course, you will be able to develop a restorative diagnosis in conjunction with an occlusal strategy for the patient, as well as how to perform additive and subtractive equilibration. You will be able to better treat your patient for their greatest oral health and achieve higher success rates in your practice while adhering to ethical standards.
You will learn how to accurately diagnose malocclusion so that you can offer early minimally invasive treatment for the best possible outcome. It starts by assessing the patient’s occlusal condition and combining this diagnosis with the education of the patient and offering the least invasive management of the condition.
You can evaluate the symptoms by giving the patient a dental history form to note their symptoms. The key is realizing that there are multiple signs and symptoms indicating this condition. For example, if the patient experiences morning headaches, tooth sensitivity, the grinding or clenching of the jaw and jaw pain.
If your patient lists one or more of these they are dealing with an occlusal disease:
- Pathological occlusal wear and fractures of teeth/restorations
- Cervical dentin hypersensitivity (CDH)
- Tooth hypermobility
- Fremitus
- Abfractions
- Vertical bone loss or localized bone destruction (secondary to periodontal disease)
- Pain and tired facial and masticatory muscles or TMJ pain
Assessing a patient’s occlusal condition can help them relieve symptoms as well as ensure that the dental restorations you provide for them succeed. Once they are diagnosed, you will also need to educate them about their occlusal disease as well as treat it. A minimally invasive way to accomplish this may involve wearing a night guard or additive or subtractive equilibration.
If you are interested in learning more about how to diagnose and manage occlusal disease in your patients, we invite you to enroll in our two-day workshop. We still have space available on November 16-17, 2018 this year and as early as February 22-23, 2019. Give us a call today 818-729-9121 or sign up online!