TMJ Diagnosis in Orthodontic Treatment – Searching for the Holy Grail

with Dr Pawel Machala

Aims and objectives

1. Systematise knowledge about anatomy and physiology of TMJ.

2. Discuss the usefulness of available diagnostic tests.

3. Indicate when and how diagnostics of TMJ is necessary in Orthodontic treatment.

Bio

Dr Pawel Machala is a specialist in orthodontics. Experienced clinician, graduated from Faculty of Dentistry at the Medical University of Lodz in 1997, former clinic employee of the Main Clinical Hospital of the Medical University of Lodz 2013-2019 in Department of Orthodontics. Associate of the Department of Forensic Medicine of the Medical University of Lodz as an expert in the field of orthodontics since 2016 to the present day. From 2012 he cooperates with Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery at University Clinical Hospital WAM in Lodz.

CEO and owner of the Health Care Center 193 DENT in Lodz – from 2001 till present. Member of the Polish Orthodontic Society, member of the Section of Maxillofacial Orthopedics of the Polish Society of Dentists. Certified GC Orthodontics speaker since 2022. Speaker of Invisalign® from 2023.

Main professional interests: orthognathic treatment, combined orthodontic and surgical treatment with plastic surgery, development and use of aligners and skeletal anchorage.

Hobbies: tennis, windsurfing, sailing (representative of OiL in Łódź in the Polish Physicians Championship), bridge