Your Occlusion Questions Answered by Dr Michael Melkers – PDP015

Not only did I finally get Michael Melkers to finally come on my Podcast….I also managed to get him over in November 2020 for his signature 2 day occlusion program! The event was rearranged from May 2020 to November 2020 due to Covid-19 - therefore new tickets will be added. Check out Occlusion2020.com for tickets. I present my first ever Video Podcast below – but as always, the audio version is available by direct download above, or from iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify etc. Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! This episode’s Protrusive Dental Pearl is shared by one of the talented Dental Technicians I use, Hit Parmar – how can we give our patients the experience of what a splint might feel like, as if to test tolerance and compliance? “How will I know I will not gag or be able to wear one in my sleep?” – a common and valid concern. Listen to the audio podcast to find out how you can manage this and test the waters! (within the first few minutes of the introduction to the episode) In this fun and informative episode, we discuss: – What is the point of using a Facebow and Articulator? (you may be surprised by his answer..!) – Are we really designing Occlusal schemes for optimum function (spoiler – we’re not!) – Why is our understanding of Occlusion…’sub-optimal’ once graduating? – Which is the best Occlusion camp? Dawson? Pankey? Kois? LVI? – Which is the ‘best splint’? – We discuss his upcoming 2-day Occlusion in Everyday Practice program in Heathrow 27th and 28th November 2020 Do join us in November for occlusion and lamb chops at Occlusion2020.com You will never find a better value Occlusion or even Michael Melkers course ever again! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQQg9daDak Click below for full episode transcript: Opening Snippet: Hello everyone, and welcome to Episode 15 of the Protrusive Dental podcast... Jaz's Introduction: You can almost hear the excitement in my voice right now. I have none other than the Dr. Michael freaking Melkers on the podcast. And the reason I'm so excited is because as you know a lot of you know, I saw Dr. Michael Melkers in Stockholm last year in his two day course, absolutely just inspired me so much was a massive, massive part of my occlusal journey if you like. So I'm so excited to have him on the podcast. And for some of you who might have seen my Facebook exploded about a week ago. So for those of you who haven't been my Facebook page is facebook.com/protrusive. And on there, you can check out the video version of this podcast. So you can see me and Michael, Michael Melkers were sort of, you know, our faces, interchanging and it's the first ever video podcast I did. And it went well. Thankfully, a few little minor glitches, which I mentioned are sorted out in terms of streaming and stuff. But overall, if you prefer to watch rather listen, then you have the option for this podcast episode to sort of watch that. So yeah, that's on the Protrusive Facebook page. And if you want to listen to it, that's totally cool. That's why I'm recording this. But you do get an added benefit of you know, I'm putting in the Protrusive Dental pearl for today and a few other extra bits. So let's just dive right into that. My Protrusive Dental pearl for you today is related to occlusion and splints. And I learned this from Hit Parmar who is a dental technician at Fine Art dental studio, which is in Birmingham. And I met him at Kushal Gadhia, Rahul Shah and Victor Gehani sort of Ace course, that's acecourse.uk.co I believe. We were discussing about splints and splints compliance, because we all know we all have those patients where the compliance with splinters is not so good. They feel it's too bulky, not comfortable. And I had one sweet old lady asked me look Jaz, we're recommending this, you know, 400, 500 pounds splint And what if I don't get along with it? You know what, that's completely reasonable.