2 Important Uses of Acupuncture and Trigger Points – PDP105

Dental Acupuncture made tangible thanks to our guest Dr David Johnson. We cover the basics of trigger points relevant to Dentistry and Temporomandibular Joint Pain, as well as the two main applications of acupuncture in for Dentists. https://youtu.be/sHGJcsIAses Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental Pearl: How I communicate an Oro-Antral Communication:  I will pull up the radiograph and show it to the patient and warn them that the root of THEIR tooth is so close to the sinus. "If your roots live in your sinus then there is a chance that you will have a new party trick: when you drink water through your mouth, it could come out through your nose via the sinus", and that creates a memorable warning/consent. In this episode I asked Dr. David: What is a Trigger Point?What is the pathophysiology of a trigger point?What causes the trigger points to turn on? What are the uses of acupuncture in dentistry in terms of a gag reflex?What is the success rate of acupuncture?How does acupressure work?Implementation of acupuncture in general dental practice Please do check out Dr David Johnson's Course and Implement Acupuncture on your practice Monday morning. If you would like me to organise another course with Dr Johnson, DM me on Instagram @protrusivedental If you loved this episode, please do check out Hypnotize Your Patients with 3 Quick Techniques with Dr Jane Lelean Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Patients with a prominent gag reflex, patients with temporomandibular joint pain of muscular origin, in relation to that is headaches, migraines, and especially headaches, we know this one yet 60% of patients who have temporomandibular joint pain are getting regular headaches, we need to start coming away from it and moving as your stunts do down onto the neck because we know that most headaches are coming from muscles of the head and the neck.. Jaz's Introduction: Hello, Protruserati. I'm Jaz Gulati, welcome back to another Protrusive Dental Podcast episode. I feel like it's been a long time since I had a PDP episode, we've had a couple of group functions, which I hope you really enjoy with Pav. Like I told Pav before I recorded those episodes, speak to me like I'm five years old, because like I said, in a recent Instagram post, I don't know very much about implants. So that's why I really enjoyed learning those basic principles from Pav and sharing them with you. And we had some great comments on YouTube asking for more of this kind of stuff, because it's a confusing gray area, which Pav made very clear. Anyway, this episode is about acupuncture, and trigger points, and two really key uses of acupuncture in dentistry, even if you don't proceed with actually implementing acupuncture into your care, then I think you're still getting a lot of value from David Johnson, Dr. David Johnson did a fantastic job to explain the benefits of acupuncture but also how you can use something called acupressure to actually suppress the gag reflex on children and adults. So do stick around for that absolute gem of advice that he gives. And I think you're able to gain even just from that. This area, you know, trigger points and acupuncture is yet another area, which is not really talked about much in dental school, especially trigger points, like the more I learned about trigger points, the more I'm like how do they not explain this in dental school? I can actually think back to patients at dental school, which were having issues around trigger points and referred pain. And we and the dental tutor and I as a student, we couldn't figure out what was going on. But now I look back and I think yes, it must have been referred pain. And it makes so much more sense to me and you find it, once you know what you're looking for, you can find it a lot more. I think on a monthly basis, I find patients who'd benefit from this.