Occlusion, TMDs, and dental education 英文参考文献.docVIP

Head Face Medicine BioMedCentral Review Open Access Occlusion, TMDs, and dental education Major M Ash Jr* Address: Professor and research scientist, emeritus, University of Michigan, USA Email: Major M Ash* - mmash@ * Corresponding author Published: 03 January 2007 Received: 09 November 2006 Accepted: 03 January 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007, 3:1 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-3-1 This article is available from: /content/3/1/1 ? 2007 Ash; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract The paradigmatic shift to evidence-based dentistry (EBD) that relates to occlusal therapy, selective occlusal adjustment (OA) and stabilization splints therapy (SS) for TMDs has had an unfavourable impact on the teaching of many of the important aspects of occlusion needed in dental practice. The teaching of OA systematically in dental schools has been nearly abandoned because of the belief that OA is an irreversible procedure and gives the impression that it is without merit elsewhere in the management of occlusion. However, a particular dose of knowledge and practice of occlusion that is necessary for all aspects of dental care should be taught systematically in dental schools. The uses and misuses of OA and SS and their limitations should be emphasized because of their importance to bring clinical reality into the dental curriculum. Thus, and irrespective of EBD induced contradictions, OA and SS should still have a significant place in systematically teaching of occlusal therapy. However, there are many more aspects of the management of occlusion that should to be considered. Hopefully, because of their importance, other aspects of the management of occlusion will once again become a significant