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Historical perspective overview 

Persisting Elevation -  A three-legged stool? (2:42) 

Definition of Dentistry  - TMDaVinci Code of Occlusion

1. DIAGNOSIS definition (0:00) - Function obligates Form (3:38) - Trigeminal Sensory Modulation (6:20)

2. Trigeminal motor and sensory root (start) - Electric motors (1:46) - Muscle fiber innervation (4:07) - What EMG represents (6:06) - Normal incising with minimal resistance (7:45)

3. Normal incising with minimal resistance (start) - Incising upon considerable resistance (0:08) - Crushing considerable resistance (0:36) - Trigeminal motor circuitry completion (2:26) -  Occluding circuitry completion (5:08) - Motor activity = Masticatory activity (8:46) - Fourth factor of motor activity (8:46) 

4. Masticatory innervation, CR INTRO (start) - Basics of mandibular position and movement FROM CR

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5. Clenching: Purposeful Necessity? (start) - Function dictates Form provides Function (1:27) - Temporalis vs. Masseter (4:25) - Muscle responsibility of "working movement" (5:23)

6. Interference to working closure (start) - Deprogramming to reveal interferences (0:32) - Extremes of purposeful function (4:10)

7.   Functional mandibular positions (start) - Lateral Pterygoid maximum intensity (5:21) - Resistance to Opening (6:40) - Dentistry stipulates closed (8:15)

8.   Final Closing vs. Initial Re-opening (start) - Encountering Resistance to Opening (3:27) - Propulsion of Twin Engine Boats (8:55)

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9.   How joints are strained (start) - Mandibular propulsion motors (1:13) - Collision patterns of motor hyperactivity (3:10)

10.  Insight on "cervical parafunction" (start) - PARAFUNCTION diagnosis and description (1:55) 

11.   PARAFUNCTION description (it's all relative) (start) - Catagories of Parafunctional Occluding Schemes (5:34) - The continuum of parafunction (9:38)

12.  Catagories of Parafunctional Occluding Schemes (start) - Traditional Splint Therapy Failure (5:25) - Sleep Cycles (7:00)

13.    Primary Clenching (start) - Occlusal Therapy Treats Parafunction (Dawson) (3:24)

14.  Where a traditional splint fails (start) - Goals for splint therapy (2:30) - Deprogrammer enhancement (3:18) - Michael Melkers DVD (6:05) - NON-distalization due to incisal contact (6:17) - Non-realistic observation of articulators (6:55) 

15.   Error in excessive VDO of splint therapy (start) - Error of excessive VDO in extreme protrusion (1:43) - Addressing parafunctional occluding schemes with an Enhanced Deprogrammer (2:09) - Treating pathologic condyle (4:43)

16.   Mini Implant Screws to close VDO (Temporary Anchoring Devices, TADs) (start) - TMDaVinci Code Breaking (2:02)

1.   Introduction - Overview of therapeutic goals (2:00) - Principles of Parafunctional Control (6:00) - Three possible therapeutic outcomes (7:48)

2. Limits of purposeful protrusion - Purposeless Protrusive "Function" (0:40) - Therapeutic goals in protrusion (2:12) - Excessive VDO in protrusion (3:47) - Extending DE for protrusive clencher (5:11)

3.  Increasing VDO - Typical Reduction of DE in protrusive (5:03) - Improper delivery of a maxillary device (5:52) - The tangent surface of the IG device (7:30)

4.   Avioding upper canine on a lower DE - Maintain minimal VDO in protrusive (1:40) - Deep bite with "Z" step device (4:00) - Excessive VDO with Standard Device (6:12)

5.   Relieving a click - Protrusion increases as resistance decreases (1:25) - Excursion increases as resistance decreases (2:12) - Severe excusion with posterior contact (5:11) - Adapting for excessive protrusion (8:11)

6.   Adapting for excession protrusion (repeat, oops) - DE design for severe Class II (1:15) - DE design for Class III  (1:42) - Group parafunction (3:00) -

7.   Opposing Slider - Anterior deprogrammer / Daytime device  - Revealing posterior interference - AOB (2:27) - Comparing before/after models  - Dynamics of a developed AOB (dentist's goals vs. patient's goals) (2:45)

8.  Vacuum-formed devices - NTI over full-mouth brackets (00:27)