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GOLF AND LEARN 2009:

"Everything you wanted to know about TMD, but were afraid to ask?"

 

Friday, August 14, 2009

 

Location: The Country Club of Lincoln - 3200 S. 24th Street, Lincoln, NE

Speaker: Dan Tylka, DMD, MS

 

CE Credit: 3 hours

 

Registration: 8:30am
Course: 9:00am - 12:15pm (One 15-minute Break)

CE Course Fee: $120 (continental breakfast and lunch)

Golf Fee: $100 (18 holes, cart, snack and tax)

CE Course/Golf Fee: $210 - 1:22pm First Tee Time(7 tee times)
Auxiliary CE Course Fee: $95 (continental breakfast and lunch)
Auxiliary Course/Golf Fee: $185 (breakfast, lunch, 18 holes, cart, snack, and tax)

Speaker:

Daniel F Tylka, DMD, MS is an associate professor at the University

of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.  He received his DMD from Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine and an MS from the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry.  Dr. Tylka also holds certificates in “Fixed Prosthodontics” and “TMD & Orofacial Pain”.  His faculty practice is devoted to patients with temporomandibular disorders, craniofacial pain and obstructive sleep apnea.

 

Course Description:

This course will present information regarding the diagnosis and management of Orofacial Pain and Temporomandibular Disorders. The course will use a multitude of case-based examples to help the participant understand, contrast and compare the different TMDs and orofacial pain conditions that patients present with to your office. The information provided in this course will allow the participant to understand how to more confidently identifying TMJ and orofacial pain problems. The management of many orofacial pain disorders will be discussed, but temporomandibular disorders will be emphasized since the dentist plays a major role in managing these pain disorders.

 

 

Educational Objectives:

Following the presentation the participants will be able to:

• Properly screen patient for TMD.
• Understand TMD within the context of Orofacial Pain.
• Understand, recognize and differentiate between TMDs and conditions that can mimic TMD.
• Know what the ADA requires of every dentist in its TMD Practice Parameters.

 

 

Method of teaching:

Lecture/Discussion

 

 

Register online or call (402) 472-2175
or toll free (866) 700-4747 office hours 8 am -5 pm.

 

Last updated: July 6, 2009 11:45 AM