2023 Meeting Abstracts Abstracts of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain (AAOP) 47th Scientific Meeting AAOP 47th Scientific Meeting Organizing Committee1,*, DOI: 10.22514/jofph.2024.001 Submitted: 11 January 2024 Accepted: 25 January 2024 Online publish date: 31 January 2024 *Corresponding Author(s): AAOP 47th Scientific Meeting Organizing Committee E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] PDF (1.1 MB) [...]

I think AAOP’s important role is that we do fund research--small research grants to the residents to help support benchtop and clinical research. AAOP also has speakers from the medical field; sometimes it's PhDs and pharmacology. It really does draw on a lot of the research that's being [...]

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What an Awesome Time to Become AAOP President Or is it? With the pandemic, our ways of business, practice and education are in crisis. People are calling the year of 2020 a cursed year; the worst ever. But for us in the world of OFP that [...]

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New Insights Into Migraine and the Migraine-Preventative Medication, Propranolol, for Management of Painful TMD - Tchivileva Cross-sectional studies demonstrate positive associations between occurrence of migraine and painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD). However, few prospective studies have investigated the relevance of the association for the purpose of predicting TMD [...]

Remembering Dr. Henry Gremillion May 18th of this year the American Academy of Orofacial Pain and dentistry lost a great member. A wonderful teacher, lecturer, anatomist and friend to many people but to me he was as close as a brother. Our friendship spanned forty seven [...]

Medical Billing Pearls and Pitfalls As dentistry continues to shift towards oral-systemic wellness, more dental procedures are being recognized as medically necessary and being covered under major health insurance plans and policies. Dental practices are recognizing the significant benefits to offering medical insurance reimbursement such as increased case [...]

Practical Screening for Sleep Disordered Breathing in Clinical Practice Sleep disordered breathing, which includes obstructive sleep apnea, is one of the most under recognized and untreated group of disorders experienced in the general population. Dentist, by the nature of the well care model of practice, are in the [...]