528: Occlusion with Your Patients’ Growth&Development - Dr. Curt Ringhofer - a podcast by ACT Dental

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Occlusion with Your Patients’ Growth & Development

Episode #528 with Dr. Curt Ringhofer

Countless people are affected by temporomandibular joint disorders. Fortunately, you have the opportunity to correct it. If you want to be a valuable resource for your TMD patients, don't miss today’s episode! Kirk Behrendt brings in Dr. Curt Ringhofer, an instructor from the Chicago Study Club, to talk about recognizing, diagnosing, and treating growth deficiencies early so you can set patients up for proper growth and development. To learn more, and to find out how to join the Chicago Study Club, listen to Episode 528 of The Best Practices Show!

Episode Resources:


Links Mentioned in This Episode:

The Bruxism Triad by Dr. Jeff Rouse: https://c1-preview.prosites.com/temp2bngb078h1/wy/docs/Dr.%20Jeff%20Rouse%20-%20Inside%20Dentistry%20Bruxism%20Triad%20Article.pdf

Finding Connor Deegan: https://www.aapmd.org/aapmd-blog/finding-connor-deegan-video

Main Takeaways:

Find the Connor Deegans in your practice.

Set young patients up for proper growth and development.

Recognize, diagnose, and treat growth deficiencies as early as possible.

There are more TMJ patients than you might think, and they will seek you out.

Remember that what we know today about occlusion may be wrong tomorrow.

Quotes:

“If we set people up for success, in any aspect of life, we’re setting them up in a way that they can grow. And it’s no different in growth and development. If we notice that there's a growth defect, whether it’s at the maxillary level or the mandibular level, we’re setting them up to grow properly. And when we set them up to grow properly, it’s going to affect the airway. And we all have heard the stories from Jeff Rouse — and airway seems to be the sexy topic nowadays — and the effects it can have on not only development of kids, but as we get older, there's more diabetes and heart disease.” (5:55—6:37)

“I read an article not too long ago that the highest incident of airway-disordered sleep is from about three to eight years old. Well, that's when the brain is developing. And if we’re suffocating the brain of oxygen, it’s not able to develop as well. And a lot of that has to do with the exoskeleton, which I learned from Mark Piper,...

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