80% Dentists vs. Finding the 1% Expert Dentist

What is preventing people from receiving care that solves their problems?

Is it access to trained personnel?
Is it too many within the profession claiming abilities and patients wind up bouncing around without resolution and grow weary?
Is it a lack of knowledge on the part of the public as to whether dentistry can even help?
Is it cost?
Is it confusion over Treatment modalities?
Other factors?

Regarding Bites and Occlusion….99% of dentists are confused. Let’s face this reality.

Let’s assume that the top 5% of dentist in the U.S. exist and they are the so called “Specialists” or experts who have the ability, skills to treat, recognize and see the occlusal/TMD problems. They are the ones who are able to treat the masticatory dysfunctions, pain and TM Joint derangement problems effectively. If so, that would bring this 5% of doctors to a total of 7,750 dentists.

Question: Where are they? Do they even exist in the United States or Canada?

7,750 “Expert” dentists…that is a big number. Why is it that patients have a difficult time finding these doctors in this country and abroad to resolve and fix their problems? The OC GNM minded doctors would have to be in the less than 1% group. 1% top dentist totals 1,550 dentists in this country…that still is a lot of dentists. Where are they when patients are trying to find someone qualified to resolve their occlusal, TMD, musculoskeletal problems? MRI’s and piles of well written medical/dental reports are not resolving these problems? That is the fact!

Doctors who listen to patient feedback learn to act on the observed findings. A large percentage of physician’s or health care providers who many of the TMD patients have seen over the past 5-6 years either are either not interested in patient feedback, or will tell the patient that their problems is related to something else. Some will say the problem is related to obliterated discs or will tell the wondering patient that their occlusion is perfect or they are stressed, to nothing is wrong. Perhaps, they suggest, that TMD, pain, disc derangements, and masticatory dysunction is related to menneires disease, CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Giant Cell Temporal Arthritis, Eagles Syndrome and the list goes on…….

The desperate patient spends more money to get tested for these suggested problems and low and behold the testing comes up negative – those suspected problems are not present and the physician either goes quiet or tells you the testing is wrong!