Diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders (DC/TMD)

Facts

Duration: 1-2 days

Price:

1-day course: DKK 6000
2-day course: DKK 9000

Place: Aarhus

Language: English

The aim of the course is to give the participants both theoretical and practical knowledge in the DC/TMD (1-day course) and DC/TMD calibration training (2-day course) with the overall aim that clinical examiners are standardized in their examination, diagnosis, and assessment procedures in the conduct of the Axis I Clinical Examination for DC/TMD.

Target groups

1-day course: General dentists/clinicians who wish to use the DC/TMD in clinical practice.

2-day course: Clinicians with a special interest in TMD and researchers who wish to use the DC/TMD for scientific studies.

Course description

Option one: 1-day course
Lectures: General principles and detailed description of the DC/TMD examination procedures including the Axis I, Axis II, and the algorithms. An overview of the changes from RDC/TMD to the DC/TMD. Palpeter ® (palpometer for accurate muscle palpation).
Practical and hands-on: Demonstration of the DC/TMD and clinical training in TMD patients so that the individual examiners become familiar with DC/TMD specific examination methods, materials and sequencing of clinical examination procedures.

Option two: 2-day course
The 1-day course + calibration training the second day. Each individual examiner compares with other examiners their DC/TMD examination findings with a Gold Standard Examiner. Calibration involves all course participants clinically examining the same TMD patients and some asymptomatic controls (in total 16 persons).

Course language

The course will be taught in English.

Course structure

Programme

Day 1	DC/TMD Training	Instructor
9:00-9.15	Welcome and Registration	KHB
9:15-10:00	Introduction to DC/TMD	PS
10:00-10:45	DC/TMD - Diagnosis and Examination Methods (Part I)	KHB
10:45-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-11:30	Palpeter® (Demonstration and hands-on)	PS
11:30-12:15	DC/TMD - Diagnosis and Examination Methods (Part II)	KHB
12:15-13:00	Lunch Break
13:00-14:00	Clinical Demonstration (over-the-shoulder)	KHB
14:00-16:00	Axis I clinical examination training (hands-on) (4 teams of 1 X patient + 1 X teacher)	PS, LBH, EC, KHB, BH
16:00-16:15	Coffee Break
16:15-17:00	Discussion/Evaluation incl. Multiple Choice Test and Course Certificate	KHB

Day 2	DC/TMD Calibration	Instructor
8:00-8:30	Today's Programme	KHB
8:30-10:00	Calibration Session I (4 teams of 1 X patient + 1 DN) (patients 1-4)	KHB, BH, DN 1, DN 2, DN 3
10:00-10.30	Coffee Break
10:30-12:00	Calibration Session II (4 teams of 1 X patient + 1 DN) (patients 5-8)	KHB, BH, DN 1, DN 2, DN 3
12:00-12:45	Lunch
12:45-14:15	Calibration Session III (4 teams of 1 X patient + 1 DN) (patients 9-12)	KHB, BH, DN 1, DN 2, DN 3
14:15-14:45	Coffee Break
14:45-16:15	Calibration Session IV (4 teams of 1 X patient + 1 DN) (patients 13-16)	KHB, BH, DN 1, DN 2, DN 3
16:15-17:00	Discussion, Evaluation, and Course Certificate	KHB

Instructors

KHB: Karina Haugaard Bendixen, DDS, PhD, Assistant Professor, Senior Clinical Instructor
PS: Peter Svensson, DDS, PhD, Dr Odont, Professor and head of Section of Orofacial Pain and Jaw Function
LBH: Lene Baad-Hansen, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor
EC: Eduardo Castrillon, DDS, PhD, Associate Professor and Clinical Instructor
BH: Bente Haugsted, Dental Nurse
DN 1, 2, and 3: three dental nurses

Course Materials

Orbach, R, Gonzalez Y, List T, Michelotti A, Schiffman E. Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD), Clinical Examination Protocol, Version June 2, 2013 (sent to participants prior to participation by e-mail)

Suggested supplementary literature

Benoliel R, Svensson P, Heir G, Sirois D, Zakrzewska J, Oke-Nwosu C, Torres S, Greenberg M, Klasser G, Katz J, Eliav E. Persistent orofacial muscle pain. Oral Dis 2011;17:23-41.

Dworkin SF, LeResche L. Research diagnostic criteria for temporomandibular disorders: review, criteria, examinations and specifications, critique. J Craniomandib Disord. 1992 Fall;6(4):301-55. Review.