Be Warned of Seismic Activity Ahead (Editorial)
By CRANIO: The Journal of Craniomandibular Practice
- Release Date: 2006-10-01
- Genre: Engineering
Description
The dental Mount St. Helens is rumbling again. Controversy prevails and is making us even more divided. The April "Journal of the American Dental Association" (JADA) article on occlusion (1) quotes a prominent editor of an orthodontic journal as stating "... neuromuscular school tells us that there is a range of acceptable positions (centric) ... If we clinicians continue to place emphasis on establishing harmony between centric occlusion and some mythical centric relation, we are doing ourselves a disservice." Rumble! Rumble! In the June JADA letters to the editor, a prominent professor of medicine states "this is the only area of the body where a joint and associated muscle problems are psychological, yet the only area of the body treated by dentists." (2) How much training did you get in this? Did you feel the ground shake a little?
