The Last Occlusion Seminar You Will Ever Need - Training Course (2-days, London)
EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICAL OCCLUSION FOR THE GENERAL DENTIST
Learn how to protect your patients and the dentistry you do for them from the destructive forces that threaten them. Occlusion – from every day restorative therapy to treating the occlusal neurotic and the role of occlusion in orofacial pain, headache, and joint dysfunction.
Earn 12 hours of verifiable ECPD for this course.
Join Dr Barry Glassman as he returns to host his only UK seminars in 2025!
Are you currently using conventional night guards or repositioning appliances to protect your patients whose diurnal and/or nocturnal activity is causing dental damage, threatening your dentistry, or contributing to pain or dysfunction?
Are you using SCi’s but wonder about why it is so effective or are the concerns about segmental appliances that are often expressed real?
When is an SCi contraindicated?
Dr Barry Glassman is an internationally recognised authority on occlusion and the role of parafunctional control in the protection of the forces that threaten our patients in so many ways. He will guide you through two enjoyable and enlightening days that exposes a new truly life changing perspective on evidence based concepts that lead to extremely practical clinical skills. These exciting discoveries result in simplified concepts to successfully protect your patient’s teeth and at the same time potentially play a major role in management of previously undiagnosed pain and joint dysfunction.
This course is suitable for any GDP, no matter what your occlusal training to date has been.
COURSE OPTIONS: AT A GLANCE
In-Person Only - £595
- Face-to-face guidance
- 12 hours of verifiable ECPD
- Digital copy of seminar to refer back to
- Full marketing support to help you get started
- Optional seminar social to network with peers
In-Person Package - £995
- Face-to-face guidance
- 12 hours of verifiable ECPD
- Digital copy of seminar to refer back to
- Full marketing support to help you get started
- SCi demo appliance
- Lab-made SCi dental splint
- SCi Starter Kit (Chairside Kit)
- Optional seminar social to network with peers
A word from Dr Glassman on the course:
I am thrilled to announce that S4S is sponsoring a comprehensive event designed to give dentists a greater understanding of the role of occlusion in not only common dental issues, but also headache and temporomandibular joint dysfunction. These two days will increase your knowledge base and confidence levels in terms of accurate diagnosis and in treatment with appropriate splint therapy. We truly believe that delegates will walk away with a total appreciation of the role that occlusion plays in pain and dysfunction, and knowing that this really was the last occlusion course they will ever need.
Meet our Host: Dr Barry Glassman
Dr Barry Glassman is an internationally recognised authority on Bruxism and related issues. His hard-hitting and inspirational talks have been popular with dental audiences around the world.
A popular and dynamic speaker, Dr Glassman maintained a private practice limited to chronic pain management, temporomandibular joint dysfunction and dental sleep medicine. He currently serves as consultant to the Allentown Pain and Sleep Centre with Dr. Don Malizia and Dr. Tony Polit, maintaining the Allentown Model and the Allentown Pain and Sleep Centre.
YOUR SEMINAR PACKAGE
- 2-day seminar with evening social
- Practical splint workshop
- Face-to-face guidance
- SCi demo appliance, Chairside kit and lab-made device
- 12 hours of verifiable ECPD
- Marketing support
- Digital copy of ‘Myth-Busting Occlusion for the General Dentist’ full-day seminar
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NEW & IMPROVED
With over 10 years of successfully training GDPs in our core areas, we have redesigned our programme offering to ensure it best meets your needs.
COURSE ITINERARY
Day 1 - Thursday 2nd October 2025:
Seminar: 9-5pm
- INTRODUCTION: Course objectives
- A Critical Evaluation of the Goals of Occlusion including 'Stability'
- The History of Occlusion in Dentistry:
- How we got where we are
- The Treacherous Path of Pain Management in Dentistry - The Stipulation of Occlusion:
- Parafunction - Proposed Causes
- Internal Derangements
- Role of Bruxism in internal derangements
- Role of CNS in pain Nociplastive trigeminal signaling - Practical Anatomy and Physiology
- The History and Clinical Exam
- Muscle Activity in Parafunction; Anterior Midpoint Stops
- Occlusal Dysesthesia: Preventing and treating the occlusal neurotic
- Why and How to check occlusion post restorative procedures
- Myths of Appliance Therapy and Occlusion
- Daytime Parafunctional Control
- Orofacial Pain and Chronic pain
From 6pm
A relaxed evening of food and drinks, with the opportunity to network with other delegates and discuss the day’s content with our course speakers.
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Day 2 - Friday 3rd October 2025:
Seminar: 9-5pm
- Review Day One
- The Clinical Examination including Ligament Insertion Palpations
- The Truth about Muscle Palpation
- Intracapsular Disorders – Case Presentation of Disc Displacement with Reduction
- Physiology and myths of Anterior Midpoint Stop Appliances
- Diagnosis and treatment of ligament insertion injuries
- Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Reviewed and a new look at “TMD.
- Review of the model of diagnosis and conservative diagnostic therapy
- Migraine: Physiology, Diagnosis, and the Dental role in treatment
- Pharmacology; Most common supportive agents
- Case Presentations and Discussion
- Degenerative Joint Disease Revisited
- Referred Otalgia
- Cervicogenic Headache
- Therapeutic Protocol of Anterior Midpoint Stop Appliance Therapy
- Summary and Review