Which is the Best Dental Splint? [SPLINTEMBER] – PDP038

2021 UPDATE: This blew up! I was inspired to create a flowchart to help with Splint Decision Making - download the flowchart by clicking here Which is the BEST Dental Splint? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsXjNkmQf9s Best splint on YouTube - or listen on the usual podcast channels Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! It is finally SPLINTEMBER and we kick it off with an all time important question - which is the best splint for your parafunctional/bruxist/TMD patient? Surely it's a Michigan…right? Or maybe it's a Gelb appliance? Or the humble soft splint…? Did I just say that?SURELY it's a A- Splint, B-Splint or a C-Splint?! Well, I have an answer for you…it's called the G-Splint! The G-Splint* is the best dental splint there is. There are so many factors that will determine this. In this episode, Dr Jaz Gulati explores many of the factors to consider for appliance therapy in the form of dental splints: What are you trying to achieve?Is the patient symptomatic?What is the 'purpose' of the splint? (Hat tip to Dr Michael Melkers)What is the goal?What about access, cost, airway, orthodontics and compliance with splints? Protrusive Dental Pearl: A quick way to remove temporary crowns and onlays using a haemostat! Tune in for the rest of Splintember where I will go deep in to different splints! *The G-Splint is just a metaphor for splint provision based on the history, exam and diagnosis for your patient! Remember to hit subscribe for updates and join the newsletter on www.protrusive.co.uk Click here for Full Episode Transcription: Opening Snippet: The best dental splint in the whole world is _splint. Hi guys and welcome to splintember It's finally the episode about splits been waiting for starting off with which is the best splint... Like this is such a big question which splint is your go-to splint and basically you know you're gonna hear about my journey with splints. People who have influenced me mentored me but I'm gonna get right into it very quickly when i was gonna tell you what are the factors which i look for to determine which is the best splint for a patient i have so since i posted about Splintember on Facebook and Instagram everyone's been sending me a lot of love and everyone's looking forward to it which has been so amazing it's a really confusing topic for me, my interest in splints grew out of frustration I'll talk about that in a moment but thank you so much for everyone sending their love. One of the listeners Taha Alibi actually messaged me on Instagram say no i really like the splinter idea but for october can you do Orthooctober or Orthodontober to try and get all the orthodontic systems to sort of almost debate against each other to see which is the best orthodontic system and I thought that's pretty clever it's a great idea but I might say that until next year for example when everyone has enough time to prepare and stuff but thank you so much everyone for your suggestions. The Protrusive Dental Pearl even though it's a splint episode I'm going to give you like a a non-splint appeal and this is something i posted on my Instagram just a few days ago check out @jazzygulati for the Instagram and this is how I like to remove temporary crowns and temporary onlays. I use a hemostat or mosquitoes or archery forceps lots of words for them and if it's a posterior one like to use the curved ones and basically you squeeze your temporary crown or temporary only and that breaks apart any bonds that you have so for example for an onlay I would use a zinc polycarboxylate cement such as duralon for example is a popular brand and I would squeeze the only that would just compress it and that compression actually causes tensile stress at your sort of bond layer or the cement layer and that just gets really weak and suddenly you can just so very easily shake it off if you've got a really thick crown you know like normal even if you use convent...