Program

– Review of the literature on oral splints

– Decision making: upper or lower splints? Which materials?

– Over the counter devices

– Splint design and splint fabrication in the articulator

– Application rules and instruction to patients

– Splint equilibration

– Splints for verticalization in case of occlusal deficits

– Splints in case of muscle hyperactivity

– Splint in case of internal derangements of the TMJ: ADDwR and ADDwoR

– Mandibular Re-positioning splints

– When is a decompression strategy is indicated?

– Vertical and/or sagittal walking back strategies

– Interim analysis – the correct procedure.

Functional Dentistry

Pathologies

Treatment methods

Lecturers 3

Founder, CEO and owner of Orehab Minds GmbH, Stuttgart. Honorary member of the Romanian Dental and Maxillo-Facial Prothetic Society, the Italian Association of Gnathology. Visiting Professor of the First Moscow State Medical University. Honorary Professor of the Ukrainian State Medical Academy.

Dentist, orthodontist, and gnathologist in private practice. Co-founder and practicing clinician at Smile-Time Clinic, Germany. Lecturer, Orehab-Minds Academy.

Clinical and teaching profile centered on the Slavicek interdisciplinary concept of functional dentistry — the evidence-based approach to total occlusal rehabilitation developed by Prof. Rudolf Slavicek (Vienna). Completed the full MSc program in Biomedical Interdisciplinary Dentistry (2018–2021) at the Berlin/Stuttgart/Turin Institute under the direct supervision of Prof. Gregor Slavicek, with formal thesis defense and award of the European academic title of Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Dentistry. Additional advanced training in the MEAW (Multi-loop Edgewise Archwire) orthodontic technique — the orthodontic application of the Sato functional philosophy — at courses in Rome under Dr. Dario D'Alessio and Dr. Monica Casadei (2018–2019). Teaching scope covers gnathological diagnostics, condylography, articulator programming, splint therapy, and functional orthodontic preparation for occlusal rehabilitation in the Slavicek concept framework.

DDS (Doctor of Dental Medicine). MSc in Biomedical Interdisciplinary Dentistry, Berlin/Stuttgart/Turin Institute (under Prof. Gregor Slavicek, 2018–2021).