OROFACIAL PAIN ACADEMY – GSID WINTER SCHOOL “INTERNATIONAL TMD CAMP”

December 9-13, 2024 – Marina di Carrara

School Presentation

The challenge for the Winter School of the Orofacial Pain Academy/Italian Study Group on Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders (GSID) is to educate a master class of alumni under both clinical and research aspects. In this eighth edition of the international Residency Program, the outstanding faculty (hundreds of medline papers and decades of clinical experience will be on the desk summing up the works of all teachers) and participants from all over the world are going to interact for a widespread diffusion of clini-cal knowledge and for designing future researches in the field of temporomandibular disorders and bruxism.

As the scientific coordinator, I will never forget the first editions, with the ending moments that define them at a glance: new friends who, despite the flight schedules and their willingness to rejoin their loved ones, al-most begged for some extra time!

An entire Monday-to-Friday week, with super-teachers delving deep into the TMD and bruxism practice, is the best available option to see how actually easy is the clinical practice in a field that is often perceived as unnecessarily complicated. During the theoretical lectures and the interactive discussions, participants will learn the TMJ anatomy, understand the etiology of TMDs, summarize the clinical guidelines, read MRIs, talk about the prosthodontic and orthodontic implications in TMD patients, approach the multiple-P treat-ment framework, discuss the behind the scenes of the bruxism consensus papers, increase their basic re-search knowledge.

Hands-on sessions on patients, also featuring some first visit assessments, will reinforce the concept that most TMD symptoms are due to an emotional-driven muscle overload of the stomatognathic system, in which a host response determines the different clinical features and time frame of first onset. With about 20 patients “live”, receiving or controlling oral appliances, undergoing arthrocentesis, and/or being counseled, it is hard to imagine how to give and receive more.

I guess there is enough to define a one-and-only educational program in dentistry. I’ll be really looking for-ward to meet you for another of the Academy’s STEP (Sharing, Teaching, Education, Peer-to-Peer) expe-riences… and to deliver our main “teaching”: when easy things seem complicated, change teachers, and choose the ones who WALK THE TALK!

Waiting for you in Marina di Carrara, Italy, from December 9th to 13th, 2024!

Daniele Manfredini

Program

Monday, December 9th GENERAL INTRODUCTION

11.30              Welcome meeting and Light Lunch together

Pre-course lecture

14.00-15.00    Alessio Scortechini               How the School impacted my clinical and research activity

Kick-off lecture

15.00-18.00    Daniele Manfredini               Temporomandibular disorders in the orofacial pain world

Tuesday, December 10th ANATOMY DAY

9.00-11.00      Matteo Val                             Anatomy of the TMJ and jaw muscles

11.00-13.00    Matteo Tresoldi                     Temporomandibular joint imaging with clinical quiz Hands-on course on patients (tutors: Matteo Tresoldi – Matteo Val – Daniele Manfredini)

14.30-18.00    How to read a Magnetic Resonance of the TMJ – from patients to images

Wednesday, December 11th ASSESSMENT DAY

Hands-on course (tutor: Daniele Manfredini- Matteo Val)

14.30-18.00    How to evaluate the TMD patient – from history to differential diagnosis

Thursday, December 12th MANAGEMENT DAY

Hands-on course (tutors: Anna Colonna – Daniele Manfredini)

14.30-16.00    Oral appliances – from impressions to delivery and follow up

16.00-18.00    Luca Guarda Nardini            Live intervention: TMJ arthrocentesis

Friday, December 13th BRUXISM DAY

9.00-11.00      Daniele Manfredini               Standardized Tool for the Assessment of Bruxism

11.00-12.00    Matteo Pollis                         Awake and Sleep Bruxism and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Hands-on course (tutors: Daniele Manfredini – Alessandro Bracci – Matteo Pollis)

14.30-18.00    TMD and bruxism

18.00-18.30    CONCLUSION AND CERTIFICATE DELIVERY CEREMONY

Faculty

Daniele Manfredini – Siena, Italy Alessandro Bracci – Padova, Italy Fabio Carboncini – Siena, Italy Anna Colonna – Siena, Italy Ricardo Dias – Coimbra, Portugal

Luca Guarda-Nardini – Treviso, Italy

Matteo Pollis – Siena, Italy Alessio Scortechini – Siena, Italy Matteo Tresoldi – Siena, Italy Matteo Val – Treviso, Italy

Course venues

Hands-on and Theorectical Sessions: GSID Educational Center, Via Ingolstadt 3, Marina di Carrara, Italy

Admission criteria and registration fees

The course is reserved to owners of a University Degree in Dentistry or any academic titles that allows attending
Level 1 Postgraduate Courses. The expected level of acquired knowledge is Post-Graduate/Master of Science.

Admission fee:

• Early Bird: 3050 euro for registrations before October 15th, 2024
• Regular Fee: 3660 euro after October 15th, 2024

Full course fee comprises:

• Lessons handouts
• Coffee breaks
• Social Light Dinner on Friday evening

The full Mini-Residency program is reserved to a maximum of 15 participants.

Lessons will be given in English as the main language.

Benefits for Residents

–    Certification of attendance

Info and Registration

TMJ Class srl (+39 0585 630964): www.orofacialpain.academy or mailto: info@orofacialpain.academy