Functional Diagnostic
The pillar of all treatments.
A full functional diagnostic would normally be required for each clinical case in order to precisely evaluate the patient’s dental occlusion as well as the state of the gum, teeth, and joints. The diagnostics conducted require a total of five hours, with three hours together with the patient at the clinic, followed by two hours of data analysis and treatment planning.
As the single most important step of any treatment, a functional diagnostic comprises a comprehensive review of the jaws’ movement, the temporomandibular joint, and dental contacts whilst eating, breathing and speaking. The precision of those analyses allow us to build unique treatment plans and address our patients’ dental health issues in a most effective fashion.
Key Steps
Photoprotocol (intra and extra oral pictures), muscle palpation and anamnesis, occlusograms, brux-checkers, condylography, mounted casts with a kinematic face-bow, lateral / panoramic / frontal x-ray (cephalometric analysis), scans, CBCT and MRI (if required).
Lateral and frontal x-rays (cephalometric analysis)
Occlusograms
Brux-checkers
Condylography
Mounted casts with a kinematic face-bow