The Dental/Body Connection

April 11-13, 2025

Boston, MA

The Dental Curriculum

20-Hours Category 1A CME anticipated  

Could your mouth be the root cause of your dysfunction?  G.V. Black, the father of modern dentistry said “All disease starts in the mouth” - he could have been far more correct than he knew.   This course explores the mechanical connections that the teeth/mouth have with the rest of the body from the osteopathic lens.  This is not a typical osteopathic ALF dental course.  We will explore the principles used in multiple dental appliances and learn which may be the best choice for your patient and why….

In this course we will cover:

- Strains (both embryologic and intraosseous) that occur in the teeth and their associated ligaments and how these strains can change the body during growth and how they also effect how orthodontia impacts the body.  

- The teeth and how they influence the cranium (individually and in groups) and cause, or correct, strain patterns.  We will discuss how to use this information to adjust dental appliances or how the dental appliance can be impacting the cranium.

- How retained primitive reflexes can hinder therapy (because they dictate movement patterns in the body (and face and tongue), and how to quickly test to see if the reflexes that would hinder treatment are present.

- How the teeth can affect the eyes / vision and vice versa.  This is critically important for dentists and osteopaths to understand, because when the eyes and the teeth compete, the vision always has the right of way (i.e., it ultimately wins).  This may be why some patients struggle with their dental treatment.  We will talk about how to diagnose vision issues, how to correct them and who to send them to if it is outside of your comfort zone.  

- How dental strains / dysfunction / inadequate facial development can influence digestion, posture, your heart and lungs, your brain, etc. via Chapman’s reflex correlation with the mouth and teeth (and how to correct it using a team approach).

This course is a must have for dentists using any orthodontic device, osteopaths and other manual therapists working with dentists and dental devices (whether those devices are currently in place or have been used historically), ENT's and oromyofunctional therapists.  The screening method taught in the course allows an interpretation of “who comes first” in the therapy process and how to proceed in treatment by allowing the patient's body to guide the way so that each practitioner gets to shine and the patient wins.

This course is open to anyone who has a heathcare license and works with the mouth or the body.

Starting in 2021, this course will be offered in TWO formats - the same material will be covered in each, but the lab times and focus will be different.  One course format will be geared toward dentists and oromyofunctional therapists.  The labs will be geared toward discovering that this tooth is linked to that finding in the body (proving the concept).   The second format will be geared toward osteopaths and other body workers.  It will be focused toward more of the subtleties of palpating in the body the correlation between one tooth and the effects on the body that it can cause if it is dysfunctional.

Charlie’s thoughts on the course: what my wife and I have discovered over the last seven years has completely changed my practice - this seems to be the missing piece of osteopathy and the bridge to help dentists, oromyofunctional therapists, osteopaths, ENT’s and others work together to transform patient's lives.

This course is the dental format.

Course fee is $1800.  

Early Bird Registration is $1,500 on or before March 1, 2025.

$50.00 discount for bringign a treatment table.

Register with Alina 317-228-9270 or Email: iaocourses@gmail.com

or book online here.

Don’t see a course that you would like to take?  Email me and we can work on getting it set up.