We hope that every single case will be stable after treatment, but the reality may not be so perfect. If you were a baseball player and your batting average is .400, you would be very proud. In orthodontics, however, your practice will most certainly not survive with a 60% failure rate. In the patients’ eyes, if their treatment is unsuccessful long-term, it is a 100% failure rate for them. How do you improve your success rate? Every orthodontist knows that the right and left TMJs are connected to the bite in the mouth, but pays little attention to them. The TMJ is the secret to improving your batting average.

It is true that some orthodontists produce a higher average of long-term success in treatment. How can you reduce the failure rate and simultaneously provide consistently successful outcomes to patients? This one-day course will give you some clues to improve your daily practice quality and provide you with valuable insight about TMJ and its role in treatment stability.

Outline of lectures

• Understanding “the stable jaw position” and the technique of achieving it
• Utilizing modern imaging techniques (CBCT, MRI) to recognize the status of TMJ
• TMJ disc displacement and its effect on the stability of jaw position
• Disc displacement’s influence on mandibular growth in young patients
• Treatment of mandibular asymmetry and Class III in early childhood
• How to treat patients with advanced disc displacement with careful mechanics

Speakers

	Kazumi Ikeda DDS Graduated from Orthodontic Department, University of Pennsylvania Author of “TMJ 1st Orthodontics”
	Masaru Sakai DDS Graduated from Orthodontic Department, Aichi Gakuin University
	Satoshi Adachi DDS, PhD Graduated from Orthodontic Department, Osaka University