Interdisciplinary Functional Dentistry: A Kinesiological and Posturological Approach
Interdisciplinary Functional Dentistry: a Kinesiological and Posturological Approach
Course overview
In this course, you will gain knowledge of kinesiology and posturology that you can use for the interdisciplinary treatment of patients with muscular dysfunctions and occlusal disorders
You will learn:
How posturological, kinesiological and craniofacial problems affect bite, occlusion and breathing
How to detect clinical manifestations in the oral cavity of lumbar, cervical, thoracic, hip and muscular pathologies
How to perform diagnostic studies:
TFL muscle tests
Basic kinesiology muscle test
Localization test and challenge test
Morphostatic postural analysis.
Dynamic postural analysis.
The course is aimed at dentists and kinesiologists.
Course lessons
Lesson 1. Introduction to interdisciplinary dentistry. Kinesiology and posturology
Introduction to Integrative Dentistry
Integrative Dentistry clinical cases
Introduction to kinesiology in Dentistry
Kinesiology and Dentistry clinical cases
Importance of the Mouth in overall Health
Implications of the integrative approach in children and adults.
Lesson 2. Craniomandibular dentistry
Mouth-craniofacial structure connections
Clinical cases: mouth-craniofacial structure connections
Connections between the Mouth and the rest of the Body
Clinical cases: connections between the Mouth and the rest of the Body
Health Triangle and Range of biological tolerance.
Lesson 3. Clinical relationship between posture and bite
Diagnosis in infants, children and adults in Integrative Dentistry and kinesiology
Importance of dental occlusion assessing the triad: Teeth-TMJ-Spine
Can a dental precontact cause TMJ pain?
Importance of open bite: Breathing and psycho-emotional problems. Importance of Overbite
Tooth loss and alterations in dentition, how to assess them
Clinical manifestations in a descending pathology: low back, cervical, thoracic, hip, knees, muscles, etc.
Kinesiological Occluso-Postural Repositioner and other therapeutic tools.
Lesson 4. Kinesiological tests in dentistry
What is Kinesiology?
Basic kinesiology tools
Muscle test. TFL
Basic kinesiological muscle test
Localization test and challenge test
Neurophysiology of the muscle test. Muscle test responses
Tests prior to the muscle test.
Lesson 5. Posturological tests in dentistry
Engram and pattern
What is posturology?
Morphostatic postural analysis
Dynamic postural analysis
Posturology applied to Dentistry. Applications of muscle tests.
Lesson 6. Occlusal interferences. Relationship with posture
Meerserman test: Descending occluso-postural syndrome
Importance of the loss of the first molar: “The occluso-postural catastrophe”
Concept of Major Occlusal Stress. Causes
How to diagnose if a cranial pain is of descending origin?
