The elusive answer that every dental professional walking the planet should be privy to. What ... read more ↘ does it mean? Why is it important? What are the practical implications? When does it matter? When doesn't it matter? Dr. Nick Yiannios, founder of the Center for Neural Occlusion (the CNO), asks Dr. Mark Piper to answer these questions and more. Dr. Mark Piper is most definitely the world's expert in this arena. Why? -he was Dr.Pete Dawson's oral surgeon during the latter part of Dr. Dawson's career -he was at the end of the Dawson curriculum for many years/the end of the road for the students -he has imaged well over 20,000 TMJ's with both MRI and CBCT in his 35+ years of practice -he has surgically entered over 7,000 of those TMJ's -he is still in private practice, specializing in diagnosing orofacial and TMD issues, and continues to surgically treat appropriate TMD candidates -he has his own teaching institution, known as the Piper Education and Research Center (the PERC) in St. Petersburg, Florida, which continues to teach how to objectively measure and diagnose occlusal and TMJ issues -he is on the Board of Advisors of the newly formed Center for Neural Occlusion (the CNO), and agrees wholeheartedly that "Measured Matters" To learn more: CNOtmj.com PIPERerc.com ↖ read less
