COURSE
Mastering Oral Health:
A Clinician’s Guide
For health practitioners, health coaches &
people seeking better health
This course will be of interest to anybody with a mouth interested in their general health and have never connected the two.
As you will learn there are many connections.
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- Last updated 01/2025
Built on 40 years of clinical expertise
This course tackles the often-overlooked epidemic of oral diseases, narrow jaws, and crowded teeth. It reveals their links to almost every preventable chronic degenerative disease, including common musculoskeletal pain conditions such as chronic tension-type headaches and neck aches.
Redefining ‘stress’ in our modern world, discover how the five pillars of health build resilience and explore the crucial role of Oral Health and Dental Stress in them all.
Dive into why oral health and diseases are all too often the ‘blackhole’ or ‘missing link’ of healthcare, going beyond mere smiles or dental pain. Chronic oral diseases usually have NO PAIN associated with them.
This course uncovers the surprising and critical connections between oral health and systemic wellness.
10 CPD / CME / RACGP Pts
Comparison of Estimated Global Cases for Selected Non-Communicable Diseases 2022
Course Outline
Mastering Oral Health: Holistic Health, Redefining Stress to Comprehensive Oral Exams
This module:
- Presents a unique holistic model of healthcare built on over 40 years of clinical experience.
- Places oral health in a broader global health perspective.
- Explores why oral diseases are the ‘black-hole of healthcare’ often trivialised or completely overlooked!
- Provides an overview of oral health and systemic disease links.
- Details step-by-step what constitutes ‘a comprehensive oral exam’ and the diagnostic tools essential for diagnosis.
- Oral cancer screening.
- Practical case study for real-world application.
Oral Diseases Decoding Periodontal Disease: Diagnostic Criteria and Breakthrough Treatments
This module:
- Explore the complexity of the oral cavity from an anatomical and micrbiome perpsective
- Outlines the diagnostic criteria for the four stages of periodontal disease
- Explore the predisposing factors in the progression of periodontal disease
- Focuses on the surprising links between periodontal diseases and systemic physical and mental health.
- Explores various treatment options and the need for ongoing self-care.
Oral Diseases Tooth Decay: From Mercury Toxicity to Root Canals, Jawbone Infections and Systemic Health
This module:
- Explains the diagnosis and impact of tooth decay,
- Explores the controversial subject of root canal treatment and how to approach this in sickness and health including technique variations, success criteria, and treatment options.
- Defines awbone infections on systemic health,
- Explore the biocompatibility of dental materials like mercury, composites, titanium, and zirconium.
- Outlines the issue of mercury toxicity
- Outlines ‘safe mercury amalgam removal techniques’ (SMART Protocols) for patient and practitioner safety.
- Presents case studies on rheumatoid arthritis and chronic kidney infection to demonstrate practical applications.
- Discusses the Fluoride Debate: exploring water fluoridation and whole body health
- Explains a readily available tool (i.e. OPG/panoramic radiographs) to use with your patients as a screening tool to understand the potential progression of tooth decay > root canal infection > jawbone infection.
Beyond the Jaw: How Craniofacial Development and Dysfunctional Breathing Affect Sleep and Posture
This module:
- Describes and contrasts ideal craniofacial development and its impact on the upper respiratory system.
- Defines and outlines the impact of a ‘nutrient-dense’ and ‘nutrient-poor’ on craniofacial development from conception through life.
- Outlines the impact of function on craniofacial development from conception through life.
- Examines the connection between dental crowding, narrow jaws, and upper airway issues,
- Differentiates optimal breathing & dysfunctional breathing.
- Explores the relationship and impact of dysfunctional breathing on head posture.
- Defines what constitutes ‘a consistently good night’s sleep’.
- Defines and outlines the potential consequences of ‘sleep-disordered breathing’ conditions (e.g., snoring, obstructive sleep apnoea).
- Outlines the treatment options for sleep-disordered breathing conditions, including the pros & cons of mandibular advancement splints (MAS).
Bruxism and Beyond: Unravelling the Mysteries of Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
This module:
- Provides an overview of chronic musculoskeletal pain
- Explores the two defining components of the IASP definition of pain
- Outlines the current understanding of the aetiology of the most common chronic musculoskeletal pain condition, e.g. chronic tension-type headache....and offers a hypothesis to explain it.
- Outlines the options and clinical rationale for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain, e.g. chronic tension-type headache.
- Defines the relationship between the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), dental occlusion, head and neck muscles, and beyond.
- Explores the role of bruxism in chronic musculoskeletal pain
- Defines ‘soft tissue lesions’ and the role of the jaw in stability and balance of the head, neck and spine and the impact on motor muscle activity.
- Presents pain referral patterns and explains autonomic symptoms in chronic pain conditions.
- Explore the relationship between nocturnal bruxism and sleep-disordered breathing
- Outlines treatment options and goals to address bruxism and chronic musculoskeletal pain and what defines success.
Course Facilitator
Dr Ron Ehrlich
BDS. FACNEM. FASLM. CIECL
Holistic/Biological Dentist | Fellowship in Nutritional & Environmental Medicine | Fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine | Executive Coach
This course includes:
- 5 Modules on-demand
- Certificate of Completion/ 10CPD/CME/RACGP Pts
- PDFs & Course Notes
- 12 Cutomisable Patient Handouts
- Oral Health Screening checklist
- 30 Min Free Practice Mentoring Discovery call with Dr Ron
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