Date: Saturday, September 27th, 2025
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Delivery: In-Person Lecture & Hands-On
Speaker: Mark Drangsholt, DDS, MPH, PhD
Location: Washington AGD Global Learning Center, 19415 International Blvd, 410, SeaTac, WA
Subject Codes: (180) Myofascial Pain/Occlusion
Credit Hours: 8.0
Course Format: Lecture & Hands-on
Tuition: Lecture & Hands-On
AGD Member Dentists: $650.00
Non-AGD Member Dentists: $995.00
UWSOD AGD Dental Student Member (D1-D4): $199.00
Included with Tuition:
A light breakfast, lunch, parking, and all hands-on materials are provided for attendees.
PLEASE NOTE: If you wear magnification loupes while practicing, we recommend you bring them to this Hands-On Course.
Course Description
Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) is unique among health conditions in that it is a condition without a home – neither physicians nor dentists have embraced it – only a few orofacial pain and oral medicine specialists have evidence-based training in diagnosis and management. Delay in diagnoses of 4 to 6 years is common in two recent studies at the University of Washington. There is a need to get physicians involved in research and clinical care of TMD since so many of the symptoms overlap with problems they treat – headache, ear pain, tinnitus, dizziness.
Enough clinical evidence is available to help most people with TMD – we just need to implement training to health care providers. Treating orofacial pain in general practice can be confusing and most clinicians lack protocols/strategies to gather relevant data, form a differential diagnosis, and provide care. The specialty of Oral Medicine can seem like “Voodoo” to many, but it does not need to be with training provided by experts.
The first steps involve proper examination, use of diagnostic intake forms and diagnostic tests. Next is forming a diagnosis or diagnoses. Initial therapeutic strategies then follow these diagnoses. Utilizing well-established protocols with a systematic flowchart can eliminate or reduce pain and dysfunction in the majority of our facial pain patients and decrease the number that needs to be referred to Oral Medicine specialists.
Learning Objectives
*Perform screening of facial pain patients with screening questionnaires up to thorough exams.
*Understand how oral medicine “intake” forms guide differential diagnosis.
*Formulation of diagnosis and therapeutic strategies including pharmaceutical agents.
*Discussion of the use of ethyl chloride spray for diagnosis and treatment.
*How to use trigger point injections (TPI) both as diagnostic and therapeutic modalities.
*Explanation of where neurotoxin injections fit into the treatment of a distinct subset of myofascial pain and temporomandibular patients.
Meet Your Speaker: Mark Drangsholt, DDS, MPH, PhD
Dr. Drangsholt received his DDS degree from the University of Washington in 1984 and completed a general practice residency at Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago in 1985. He began a general dental practice in Kent, Washington, in 1985 where he continued to practice from half to full time until 1995. He returned to the University of Washington and earned his M.P.H. in Epidemiology in 1992, a certificate in Oral Medicine in 1995 and completed his PhD in Epidemiology in 2004. He was appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor in 2006.
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