This one-day course focuses on the hot topics in the field of orofacial pain/TMD. It addresses the current issues of most controversy as follows:-

A. Past Certainty Turns into Today's Questions

1) The relationship between Muscle Activity and Pain
2) The Status of Current Diagnostic Taxonomies
3) Does the Type of Treatment really Matter?
4) What is there to know about Placebos?

B. Resetting the Field

1) Not all pains are Equal
2) Providing Care in Situations of Scientific Uncertainty.
3) The Best is yet to come.