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Instructor: James P. Boyd, DDS -- Released 2/15/2008 -- Approved for 5 units CE | Synopsis: | | This course is designed to teach the dental practitioner Dr. Boyd's TMDavinci Code presentation. Trigeminally mediated disorders all have one perpetuating and/or causative factor in common: an excessive motor activity of the mandibular division of the trigeminal nerve, that is, excessive occluding of the teeth. |
| Description of Speaker: | | Dr. Boyd is the past Director of Research, Senior Clinical Instructor at the White Memorial Medical Center Craniofacial Pain Clinic, Los Angeles and now currently practices at The Headache Center, a headache and migraine practice, part of the San Diego North County Neurology Group in Encinitas, California. |
| Educational Objectives: | | Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to understand the following: | - Parafunction vs. dysfunction
- Lateral pterygoid function
- Digastric function
- Masticatory function and parafunction
- Occlusion and dental misconceptions
- Clenching
| - Protrusive and canine resistance
- Canine guidance vs. resistance
- Splint therapy goals for parafunction
- Deprogrammers and their evolution
- The TMD of primary clenching
- Migraine diagnosis and etiology
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 | Academy of General Dentistry
PACE Program Provider
FAGD / MAGD Credit
11/1/2006 to 10/31/2012
AGD PACE Approval Number: 300230
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