tailieunhanh - TMJ Disorders and Orofacial Pain The Role of Dentistry in a Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Approach

Medicine and dentistry are continuously evolving, due largely to the influences and interactions of new methods, technologies, and materials. Partly because of outdated testing requirements, our students can no longer adequately meet the increasing demands these changes have placed on a patient-oriented education. With limited classroom and clinic time and an unfavorable ratio of teachers to students, the complex interrelations within the area of dental functional diagnosis and treatment planning are precisely the type of subject matter that usually receives only perfunctory explanation and demonstration in dental school. Consequently, recent dental school graduates are obliged to compensate for deficiencies of knowledge in all areas of dentistry through constant continuing education. And so the primary. | Color Atlas of Dental Medicine Editors Klaus H. Rateitschak and Herbert F. Wolf TMJ Disorders and Orofacial Pain The Role of Dentistry in a Multidisciplinary Diagnostic Approach Axel Bumann and Ulrich Lotzmann In Collaboration with James Mah Translated by Richard Jacobi . Belton TX . 1304 Illustrations Thieme Stuttgart New York iv Authors Addresses Dr. Axel Bumann . Ph. D. Clinical Assistant Professor Dept. of Craniofacial Sciences and Therapy University of Southern California 925 W 34 St Suite 312 Los Angeles CA 90089-0641 USA bumann@ MEOCLINIC International Private Clinic Friedrichstr. 71 10117 Berlin Germany Dr. Ulrich Lotzmann . Ph. D. Professor and Chair Dept. of Prosthodontics Philipps-University Georg-Voigt-Strasse 3 35039 Marburg Lahn Germany lotzmann James Mah . . Assistant Professor Dept. of Craniofacial Sciences and Therapy University of Southern California 925 W 34 St Suite 312 Los Angeles CA 90089-0641 USA Jamesmah@ Editors Addresses Klaus H. Rateitschak . . Dental Institute Center for Dental Medicine University of Basle Hebelstr. 3 4056 Basle Switzerland Herbert F. Wolf . Private Practitioner Specialist of Periodontics SSO SSP Lowenstrasse 55 8001 Zurich Switzerland Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the publisher. Illustrations by Design Studio Cornford Reinheim Joachim Hermann Stuttgart Cover design by Martina Berge Erbach This book including all parts thereof is legally protected by copyright. Any use exploitation or commercialization outside the narrow limits set by copyright legislation without the publisher s consent is illegal and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to photostat reproduction copying mimeographing or duplication of any kind translating preparation of microfilms and electronic data processing and storage. This book is an authorized translation of the German .