Archive for March, 2026

There is a word that defines the occasions when a heath care provider creates or contributes to a disease process.  The descriptive term is IATROGENIC.    According to Merriam-Webster iatrogenic is defined as: damage or disease induced unintentionally by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedures.  It is derived from the Greek “’Iatros” (physician) and “genic” (created from).  Unfortunately, there are many examples of this throughout […]

Every dentist is taught in dental school that there are two distinct bites.  This is a very important concept for many reasons, not the least of which is that every type of dental treatment, procedure, or device depends on the dentist have a thorough grasp and understanding of this concept.  If you question your dentist about this statement, he or she will say, “Of course, everybody has […]

Over the past 200 years the healing professions have discovered the solution for a variety of diseases. Tuberculosis which filled hospitals in the 19th century is almost unheard of today because of the discovery that Isoniazid effectively kills tuberculum bacillus bacteria. The scourge of polio filling entire hospital wards with iron lungs has been almost […]

Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, TMD has been an enigma for the dental procession for over 70 years while all the information to solve the puzzle has been available in scientific literature all along. That is a fact.   The Orthopedic Surgeons call it “Joint Splinting” euphemistically.  It is a very simple concept if you understand a couple of things about joints, nerves, and muscles. 1.) […]

The diagnosis and treatment of Temporomandibular Joint Disorder, (TMD) has been justifiably coined the “Wild West of Dentistry” for more than 50 years. Since it was first described by an ENT surgeon in 1934, patients who suffer the disparate and confusing symptoms of TMD have been placed on a merry-go-round of theories, treatments, from various […]