Ann McCulloch
Founding Partner at Orofacial Therapeutics Inc.
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If you watch this week's CBS morning report on TMD https://lnkd.in/ggN_6Kxs - watch to the end to see the discouraging commentary of the newscast team. Watch this as if you were a patient and imagine why patients have fear and reticence about speaking up about their TMJ pain. Our work with Bradley Eli, DMD, MS includes presentations to frontline healthcare providers on the topic of how to identity acute jaw sprain/strain and incorporate conservative TMD prevention strategies in a timely way. Just the mention of TMD to healthcare providers triggers the types of images presented by the CBS story. Fortunately this story raises awareness of the 2020 NASEM TMD Consensus Report (which is excellent, and I am proud to be a member of the TMD Forum.) Also mentioned are the recent NIH grants. But there is no mention of the expert diagnostic skills and treatment options offered by the new specialty of Orofacial Pain, recognized in 2020 by the ADA as the 12th dental specialty. #JAMSS, #TMJ, #TMD,
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Suzie Bergman
Dentist, Author, Consultant, Educator. I am an international lecturer with focus on integration of medical, dental and behavioral health. Consultant for TMD/TMJ and orthodontics.
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Ann McCulloch I know these women personally and would respectfully disagree. They have been harmed beyond belief and there are many more gut wrenching stories like theirs. The women who spoke were catalysts of the NASEM report and you can see their testimonies before the National Academies on YouTube. We do not do patients a favor by ignoring that this happens, with much more frequency than you can imagine. These women and I all know of TMD patients who have had multiple surgeries. Some have died by suicide. One woman took her life the age of 60 after 40 surgeries.I was also harmed by TMJ surgeries that were done without respecting the surgical planes and led to heterotropic bone formation and eventual TJRs. My first surgeon did not allow me to chew solid food for over a year, nor pick up my baby for 3 months. I am a dentist who dedicated my career to studying this issue, caring for patients like these and educating providers about evidence based tx.https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=lisa%20schmidt%20nam%20report&tbm=vid&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=jenny%20feldman&tbm=vid&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=michelle%20reardon&tbm=vid&source=sh/x/gs/m2/5
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viet nghiem
OROFACIAL PAIN AND SLEEP BREATHING DISORDERS SPECiALIST CLINICIAN SINCE 2003 AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER at Nghiem Viet DDS General Cosmetic Orthodontic TMJ Implants
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Unbelievable and Unacceptable...ADA should grant the journalist an interview and make a strong stand on behalf of clinicians who treat TMD / Headache patients conservatively daily with HIGH SUCCESS. RATE.Any dentists or MD or researchers saying NO ONE know much about TMD are BUNCH OF IGNORANTS AND UN-SCIENTIFIC..THE ONLY BIAS THE US ORTHODONTIC COMMUNITY ALWAYS SINCE 1987 HAS IS HUMILIATION, DENIAL AND VENDETTA... THE DENIAL OF THE FACT THAT US ORTHODONTISTS AND ORAL SURGEONS HAD FAIED THE PATIENT INVOLVED IN THE FIRST MILLION DOLLARS TMD CASE BRIMM VS MALLOY IN 1987DR JAMES MCNAMARA AND THE MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY ORTHODONTIC DEPARTMENT WAS HUMILIATED BY DR JOHN WITZIG AND LOST THE LAWSUIT MISERABLY....DESPITE MCNAMARA'S TESTIMONY...INSTEAD OF ACCEPTING THEIR OWN FAULT AND RESPONSIBILITY IN CAUSING OR AT LEAST CONTRIBUTING TO THE TMD INJURIES TO THE PATIENT... THE US ORTHODONTIC COMMUNITY WENT ON A VENDETTA...THOUSAND OF RESEARCH PAPERS HAD SINCE PUBLIUSHED FOR ONLY ONE REASON:TO PROVE OCCLUSION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TMD, EXTRACTION OF BICUSPIDS AND USE OF CERVICAL HG DO NOT CAUSE OR CONTRIBUTE TO TMDTHEY ARE ALWAYS WRONG AND STILL IN DENIAL EVEN TODAY...WHAT A PITYWHAT A SHAME
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viet nghiem
OROFACIAL PAIN AND SLEEP BREATHING DISORDERS SPECiALIST CLINICIAN SINCE 2003 AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER at Nghiem Viet DDS General Cosmetic Orthodontic TMJ Implants
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Any one who does not believe me just has to read the article entitled:Temporomandibular disorders and orthodontics: What have we learned from 1992-2022? Sanjivan Kandasamy,a Donald J. Rinchuse,b Charles S. Greene,c and Lysle E. Johnston, Jrd St Louis, Mo, Midland, Western Australia, Australia, Greensburg, Penn, Chicago, Ill, and Ann Arbor, Michpublished in the journal AJO-DO in 2021Then please tell me what do you think?
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viet nghiem
OROFACIAL PAIN AND SLEEP BREATHING DISORDERS SPECiALIST CLINICIAN SINCE 2003 AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER at Nghiem Viet DDS General Cosmetic Orthodontic TMJ Implants
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After McNamara finished his lecture to the jurors about SNA and SNB….Dr John Witzig came to the stand and saidThe poor patient does Not Care about SNA and SNB becauseSHE HAS PAIN…Can you believe it?My Hero Dr Witzig won easily without even an MRIGreene and Johnston stated in the textbook that the possibility of such a similar lawsuit To happen now is very slim…Are they kidding?
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OROFACIAL PAIN AND SLEEP BREATHING DISORDERS SPECiALIST CLINICIAN SINCE 2003 AND INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER at Nghiem Viet DDS General Cosmetic Orthodontic TMJ Implants
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And the book entitledTMD and OrthodonticsCo authored by Charles GreeneThat the Real Horror from the United States Orthodontic Community of th 21th centuryDr Angle should turn over in his grave reading this Horrible Text
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