Basics of Occlusion – PDP090

What is Occlusion? Canine Guidance.....Group Function...that's all right?! If only it was that simple! I hope to simplify Occlusion no matter where you are in your journey starting with this back to basics episode. Occlusion is the backbone of complete dentistry and full mouth rehabilitations. https://youtu.be/nCRepLglJBk Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: If you think your patients are in Canine Guidance, check again. This time check while the patient grinds really hard. You will notice that most people are really group function and even have non-working side guidances! "It's very difficult to say that one occlusion is perfectly correct for all individuals. And I don't think we've identified an ideal occlusion for a specific person." - Dr. Ed McLaren In this first episode on Occlusion I shared: Canine Guidance vs Group Function 5:54Evidence base about Occlusion and TMD 10:34Challenges in researching Occlusion and TMD 13:13Different Schools of Thoughts about Occlusion 19:42Centric Relation 23:27Centric Occlusion 30:34What is Occlusion? 35:29Occlusion vs Occluding 37:12Test driving the changes 46:11 Check out my 9 point checklist to never have high restorations again on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zX4fcYn7POM No More High Restorations Be sure to check out the best Dental Event of the year, the Dentinal Tubules Congress And as a reference for the terms, here’s THE GLOSSARY OF PROSTHODONTIC TERMS 9th Edition If you liked this episode, you will also enjoy Posterior Guided Occlusion  Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: And we also have excellent clinicians like Ed McLaren, who said it's very difficult say that one occlusion is perfectly correct for all individuals. And I don't think we've identified an ideal occlusion for a specific person... Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati, I'm Jaz Gulati and welcome back to the big episode I was telling you about this is the basics of occlusion carrying on from the the back to basics series in August, a lot of you messaged me with your occlusion questions, so I'm going to answer some of them today, but not in like a Q&A format. Because we've done that already in question 15 I'm just gonna take you through a journey, right? I'm gonna take you through a journey that's going to be mirroring some of the things that I've picked up in my journey. And the point of this introduction is to just tell you that we are all in a different place, in our own respective journeys. So some of you may be listening and you might be a dental student, right? And you may be placing your first ever restoration tomorrow, let's say and you are just thinking, Okay, when I stick that colored paper inside, articulating paper, and you get I get the patient to bite together, what are those dots going to look like? And you're just like, that's occlusion to you, right? When the patient bites together, how will it look, right? Whereas some of you may be beyond that. Some of you may be quite well versed in raising the occlusal vertical dimension, opening up bites, placing multiple units and multiple restorations at the same time and having some degree of control of the occlusion. So each individual is in a different place in their journey and the learning never stops. Now, if you are brand new to the world of occlusion. Welcome to deep dark world occlusion, I'm going to try and not confuse you too much. But try and give you a few things to think about. I'll hopefully make sure that as you learn, right? It's going to head you in the right direction. Because the thing with dentistry and the thing with occlusion is that sometimes the first time you learn something, right, it doesn't really, really sink in until maybe a few years later, it's happened to me so many times where a few years later, the same concept has been repeated and explained to me in a slightly dif...