Contemporary Management of Temporomandibular Disorders, 1st ed. 2019 Non-Surgical Treatment

This book is a comprehensive, state of the art guide to the contemporary non-surgical treatment of temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) that will help to compensate for the frequent lack of experience and inadequate training among health professionals who encounter patients with jaw joint problems. After an opening section outlining special considerations relating to bruxism and trauma in TMDs, medical management and dental treatment are explained in detail, with coverage of various perspectives such as those of the orthodontist and prosthodontist. Psychiatric considerations and adjunctive therapies are also thoroughly discussed and the importance of a team approach to the management of temporomandibular disorders is highlighted. Complementary volumes are devoted to anatomy, pathophysiology, evaluation, and diagnosis and to total temporomandibular joint replacement and other surgical procedures, respectively. Each book will therefore be of high value for the multidisciplinary team necessary for successful management of TMDs, including dentists, surgeons, primary care doctors, pain doctors, and allied health professionals.

S. Thaddeus Connelly is Attending Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon at the San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center and Assistant Professor at the University of California San Francisco, where he carries out a mixture of research and operating room procedures. Dr. Connelly gained his DDS from Columbia University, New York, in 2001 and completed his MD at the University of California, San Francisco, in 2004. He obtained board certification from the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2008 and subsequently completed a PhD at the University of California San Francisco Graduate Division (Cranio-maxillofacial Sciences). He became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 2013. Dr. Connelly’s interests include oral and maxillofacial surgery, temporomandibular joint surgery, botulinum toxin, oral squamous cell carcinoma, pain, inducible nitric oxide synthase, and molecular markers of metastasis. He acts as a reviewer for the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and is the author of 25 peer-reviewed publications.

Gianluca M. Tartaglia is Chief of Oral Surgery and Oral Rehabilitation at the SST Dental Clinic, Segrate, Milan and Associate Researcher at the Functional Anatomy Research Center, University of Milan. He is also Consultant Professor on the Post-Graduate Program of Orthodontics at the university’s School of Dentistry, having previously been Consultant Professor for the Post-Graduate Program of Oral Surgery and to the undergraduate dental program of Head and Neck Anatomy.  He has gained his Associate professor scientific license in dentistry in 2014  He has been successfully diagnosing and treating patients with oral and maxillofacial conditions for more than 20 years and is the clinical coordinator of a multidisciplinary dental care team with full integration of diagnostic and clinical resources. Dr. Tartaglia has an H-index of 31 and has published more than 160 full papers on various topic