TMD Full Exam with ‘The TMJ Doc’ Dr Priya Mistry – PDP064

Two 'TMJ Queens' in Two Days - another tribute to International Women's Day last week and what better than having Dr Priya Mistry from USA who has limited her practice to the treatment of Temporo-Mandibular Disorders. https://youtu.be/FGVSbFjFrlw Step by Step Examination Protocol Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! I first discovered Dr Priya Mistry's fantastic content on YouTube - I really enjoyed her style of content presentation. I quickly saw her grow on this platform and help so many of the public with their TMD concerns. I realised that a lot of what she has to share is not just helpful for patients, but is really useful and helpful for Dentists, especially as many of us find the TMJ to be a mystical joint! I probe Dr Mistry about her full examination protocol for a typical TMD patient so we can gain insight in to how Dentists limited to TMD get to a diagnosis - arguably the trickiest part! Some parts of her specialised exam is already familiar to us - the usual palpation and range of motion measuring. Other parts are very different, such as measuring leg-length and really analysing the postural chain. Also, there are a lot of pre-appointment questionnaires that patients need to fill in advance of the appointment. The main take-home from this episode is to figure out when to treat TMD patients yourself in practice, and when to refer to someone like Dr Mistry. I enjoyed her '4 levels of TMD' which was very easy to follow. If you enjoyed this episode, do check out the episode with Dr Gurs Sehmi where I probe him for the full protocol examination for his Smile Makeover treatments! Enrollment for SplintCourse ends on Friday (thanks for all of you who joined from around the world!) I look forward to catching you on the Monthly Live Webinars: Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Episode Teaser: Yeah what really, excuse my French but what really pisses me off right is when Dental Professionals right like we have this like closed mind and we don't accept that there are other ways there are unknown unknowns and they go by the very poor quality evidence that exists right? So I hope when I commented on your video I hope you didn't feel like I was like disagreeing with you I was just coming at a different angle I kept a very open mind. Jaz’s Introduction: Hello, Protruserati! It’s Jaz Gulati and welcome to today’s episode all about the perfect TMJ exam. I’m joined today by someone really cool. Her name is Dr Priya Mistry. She’s based in Oregon, USA and I found her on YouTube. And honestly she is such a cool girl she makes brilliant content for patients actually but I think as dentists we can learn so much.In this episode we cover about what a TMJ examination entails for her. Now, remember a lot of these things we won’t be able to implement in our practices especially for GDPs because she is limited to TMJ. She’s limited to treatment of people with temporomandibular disorders so what she does is way above and beyond what we do including like CBCT scans, a full body examination while they’re laying down so you get to hear her workflow.So what we can learn from this episode is what do these people do that are limited or specialized in the practice of just TMD. We also answer towards the end of the podcast about what is her approach to someone with disc displacement without reduction these are people who used to have clicks and suddenly they’re locked and they cannot open very much. So how does she treat this very difficult condition to treat?You see, I’ve been reading the evidence I’ve been checking out and the evidence is very varied. There’s many different ways to approach it so I’d like to listen to her schools of thought and I want you all to keep a very open mind, keep an open mind because a lot of what she teaches is not evidence-base, it’s not taught in dent schools but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I’ll tell you why it’s likely not wrong because the t...