Starter Course in Splint Therapy: Methods for Transferring the Therapeutic Position to Occlusal Splints

Splint Therapy in Simple Terms! Online training for prosthodontists, orthodontists, and general dentists.

Through the training with Gaukhar Moldakhmetova, you will learn how to:

• Plan orthodontic rehabilitation of patients after splint therapy

• Choose the appropriate type of splint for a specific clinical case

• Fabricate splints using analog and digital methods

• Perform composite protocols (direct and indirect techniques)

• Control and adjust the therapeutic vertical dimension using temporary overlays / composite protocols

If you didn’t know where to start learning this topic — this online course is the perfect starting point!

Lesson 1. Splint therapy. Types of splints

• Types of splints

• Functions of splints

• Myorelaxation: what is it?

• Positioning splints

• Indications for splint therapy

• Myorelaxation splints

• Muscle hypertonicity: how to relax the muscles?

Lesson 2. Stages of splint fabrication. Splint design. Analog and digital manufacturing methods

• Splint fabrication workflow

• Materials and techniques

• Impressions: analog or digital?

• Use of a facebow

• Anatomical facebow

• Kinematic facebow

• Articulator and variator

• Digital articulator

• Splint fabrication: analog method

• Vacuum former + acrylic resin

• Michigan splint: fabrication protocol

• Splint fabrication: digital method

• 3D printing and milling

• Use of EXOCAD

• Splint design: basic principles

Lesson 3. Duration of splint therapy and methods of splint adjustment

• Duration of splint therapy

• MRI with splint

• Interpretation of MRI findings

• CBCT: expectations vs reality

• Myography

• Wax-up based on manual bite records

• Composite protocol

Lesson 4. Transfer of the therapeutic position from the splint to long-term overlays. Material selection and fixation methods

• What to do after splint therapy?

• Long-term overlays: classification

• Criteria for selecting temporary overlays

• Material strength and modulus (MPa)

• Composite overlays

• Methods of overlay fixation

• Indirect composite protocol

• Direct composite protocol

Lesson 5. Control and correction of the therapeutic vertical dimension on temporary overlays / composite protocol. Further treatment strategy

• MRI / CBCT monitoring

• Limitations of MRI when patients have braces

• Clinical case analysis:

  • Rehabilitation of a patient with bruxism

  • Rehabilitation of a patient with TMJ dysfunction

5 lessons (3h 26min)