{"id":2460,"date":"2017-07-27T02:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caugheydds.com\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2024-04-03T12:48:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T12:48:04","slug":"splint-design-neck-gda-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caugheydds.com\/2017\/07\/27\/splint-design-neck-gda-annual-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Splint design on Neck outcomes: Dr Caughey speaks at the GDA Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"
As a 17 year long member of the Georgia Dental Association, Dr Caughey attended\u00a0at the GDA Annual Meeting in an enjoyable way; sharing community and learning with local colleagues.<\/p>\n
This year Dr. Caughey was invited to speak to the audience on the relationship of bite splint designs and their effect on the cervical spine (neck) – this was the first talk of its kind at the GDA Annual meeting and elicited quite the interested response!<\/p>\n
Understanding the relationship between the mouth and the neck is elusive to even the most interested clinician, but frankly most dentists are not aware that there even IS a relationship. At the GDA annual convention, Dr. Caughey reviewed different splint designs – from anterior deprogrammer to Gelb splints, and from upper palatal splints to lower flat plane bite splints – and showed the effect these different splints had on a study case.<\/p>\n
Dr. Caughey has used the philosophy, that teaching at the post-graduate level is a calling rather than a choice. Well done Dr C!<\/p>\n