Digital Dental Joins Forces with BioRESEARCH to Help Dentists in Australia Diagnose and Treat TMJ Disorders

Over the past year, BioRESEARCH Associates, Inc (Milwaukee, WI) has partnered with Digital Dental (Digital Dental Pty, Ltd, Brisbane, Qld, Australia) to help dentists in Australia with better understanding craniofacial disorders and to aid in the diagnosis of Temporomandibular Joint disorders, or TMD.

BioRESEARCH provides computerized medical devices to help the dental clinician with a more thorough understanding of the issues that everyday dental patients experience involving pain, broken teeth, headaches, and TMJ related dysfunction.

Digital Dental will be the sole distributor of the complete line of BioPak products by BioRESEARCH including:

• Joint Vibration Analysis, or JVA for understanding the dysfunction of the TM joint.
• Electromyography, or EMG to assist in interpreting muscles imbalances and symmetry
• Jaw Tracker, or JT3D which captures mastication (chewing) patterns and registers electronic bite registrations
• BioTENS, which is an ultra-low Transcutaneous electro neural stimulation unit used to help relax tired facial muscles for the neuromuscular and general dentist.
• MLS Dental Laser - The all new diode dental laser assists in treating the triad of pain, inflammation, and edema.

Digital Dental will be offering monthly webinars on TMD and BioPak as well as tips and tricks on interpretation for both the BioPak and the MLS laser systems.

 Digital Dental will also be working with Braebon and offering the Australian dentists the Medibyte and Medibyte Jr home sleep testing systems.


For more information:

• In North America: BioRESEARCH Associates
• http://www.BioRESEARCHinc.com
• 1-800-251-2315
• nathanr@bioresearchinc.com
• * In Australia: Digital Dental
• http://digitaldental.com.au
• 07 3103 3373
• info@digitaldental.com.au 

Digital Dental offers a free webinar for Aussie Dentists at: Joint Vibration Analysis and you can ownload the Information on the MLS laser at MLS Diode Laser

Joint Vibration Analysis For Diagnosing TMJ Dysfunction

The temporomandibular joints or TMJs are one of the more complex joints in the human body - here we will discuss a method in the Joint Vibration Analysis or JVA that many dentists are using to aid in the proper diagnosis of TMD or TMJ dysfunction prior to routine dental care.

TMD or TMJ dysfunction is a complex, umbrella term for any of the pathologies associated with the joints themselves, in addition to the craniofacial muscles and teeth that can cause irritation or dysfunction in the joint itself. TMJ can cause many different signs and symptoms including facial and neck pain, joint and jaw pain, difficulty chewing, eye pain, ringing in the ears and tinnitus, as well as the more commonly known 'clicking' and 'popping' of the joints. Joint Vibration Analysis offers a method of helping the clinician to diagnose the intracapsular, or 'within the joint capsule' space of the TMJs.

The JVA measures TMJ Capsule health during function

Often times in the modern dental practice, dentists are left with more subjective methods of diagnosing TMD in in the joint, solely basing the treatment planning and diagnosis on patient signs and symptoms. However, the signs and symptoms often come later in the phase of pathology, whereas the problem can often be identified much earlier in its development prior to the patient observing those symptoms. Joint Vibration Analysis is a way to give the clinician insight as to how healthy the joint is during function (chewing and speaking) and allows dentists to properly find the problem long before symptoms may arise.

Similar to how a medical doctor takes biometric measurements of height, weight, and blood pressure as a baseline during a routine medical exam, Joint Vibration Analysis gives dentists that same biometric data on the health of the joint capsule space during a routine dental exam. The test is non-invasive to the patient, is recorded by the dental staff, and only takes a few minutes to record in the clinic.

Joint Vibration Analysis works by having the patient open and close their jaw a few times while vibrational 'transducers' record any abnormal joint vibrations. These vibrations are recorded as objective data and the results can give the dentist good information on how the TMJ disc is moving in the joint.

Normal joints should have no vibration as the joint should properly function with the disc in tact and those that have pathology in the disc space will be picked up by Joint Vibration Analysis. The dentist can tell everything from normal to a displaced or clicking disc, as well as a perforated or torn disc.

Nathan helps Dentists who needs help with diagnosing TMJ dysfunction with the JVA. Watch a free Webinar at Joint Vibration Analysis. Read more about the JVA including a section for dentists and patients.

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Dental Marketing: Create an Email List And Offer Your Patients Coupons and Discounts

In the modern technological age, it is no doubt that many dental offices are looking for ways to stay in contact with their customers.

Most of your customers are on Facebook and Twitter, so I see many dental offices marketing in these avenues already.

An Untapped Dental Marketing Avenue

However, one method that I do not see dental offices taking advantage of is email marketing. Most email marketing platforms are super easy to use, and the most successful businesses, both large and small take advantage of newsletter and email marketing.

How to Set Up a Dental Newsletter to Market to Your Patients

1. Visit Aweber and sign up for a Free trial for your account. Watch this video to learn how:



2. Add your Email addresses from your existing database, and get new addresses from each new patient. You can simply ask each customer upon checking out and say,

"Would you like to receive coupons on how to save at your dental visits with us by signing up for your newsletter?"

You can also add a signup form by your front desk and give them a coupon for 50% off one of your inexpensive services, like Whitening for example.

3. Create a monthly newsletter. You can add your own pictures (like your logo for branding, etc) and send out a newsletter each month offering a discount and an incentive for getting customers in. You can even offer a free consultation as part of your dental marketing plan.



4. Watch your Business Grow!

With the Aweber program, you are able to see who and how frequently you get clicks to your offers, so it's a great way to increase the marketing to dental patients!


>>Take a Trial at Aweber here...

Good Luck!
-Nathan at BioRESEARCH