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It’s all about the bite!

Which mouthguard?… It’s all about the bite!

There are hundreds of types of mouthguards or sports appliances out there. Every day a specialist wakes up one day and says, “EUREKA …. I have discovered a new mouthguard!”
Which one do we select? Is it all about the design?

Of course, the design is important. But what if we can provide more than just a “Guard”? What if we can incorporate the aspect of Performance Enhancement into the mouthguard? A mouth guard that can protect the oral tissues as well as help improve your performance.

It’s all in the bite. The way your teeth occlude decides the overall posture and balance of the person. The second before an athlete delivers all his/her might into the sporting activity they are into, the teeth go into MIP. If the MIP is unbalanced, then that imbalance cascades into a downward spiral that would affect the posture and hence the performance of that person. It maybe in fractions, but that’s all that’s needed to win the elusive gold. The TMJ forms the most superior joint in the postural chain of the body. And the occlusion decides the function and anatomy of the TMJ.
Mouthguard
Phonetic Bite? CR Bite? Muscle Facilitation Test Bite? Dynamic Decompression Bite? K7 Nm Bite? Chan Bite? Anterior Jig Bite? There are no research papers yet to prove this unfortunately.

A mouthguard that’s fabricated with the bite registration done on a “TENS-induced EMG-verified bilaterally-symmetric-isotonic-muscular-trajectory” is my go-to method as it’s evidence-based. This is how Neuromuscular Dentistry can help an athlete attain a balanced posture from head to toe. The team trainer or physiotherapist works on the posture of the athlete after the event only for the athlete to go back to the faulty posture the next day itself. This is because the importance of the maxillo-mandibular position is not given enough credence.

From something as small as a tongue-tie to checking cranial nerve functioning and confirming the sway and gait patterns; and making the necessary orthotic keeping all these in mind will help us create that perfect sports appliance for the athlete.

We, dentists, are more than just TOOTH-DOCTORS!
Dr. Raj Rav - tmj specialist

Dr. Rajesh Raveendranathan

( BDS MICCMO PhD)
Chairman, The Right Bite Sleep & TMJ Pain Care
President, ICCMO India
Secretary, ICCMO International
B.D.S
Rajas Dental College, Dr. MGR Medical University, Chennai, India)
Ph.D
Ecole Superieure Sorbonne University, France
MICCMO
MICCMO – Master of International College of Cranio Mandibular Orthopedics
Dip. N.M. Orthodontics
CNOG, Genoa, Italy
Dip. Dental Sleep Medicine
Tufts University, Boston, U.S.A.
Diplomate in Orthodontics
Orthodontic World Institute, Spain
FAACP
FAACP – Fellow of American Association of Cranio-Facial Pain, USA
Member IFUNA
International Functional Orthodontics Association, Italy
Member AADSM
International Functional Orthodontics Association, Italy
Biodata:

Born and brought up in Bahrain, Dr. Rajesh “Raj” Raveendranathan completed his graduation from Rajas Dental College attached to the Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai, India in 1997. He completed his training in Neuromuscular Orthodontics at ICNOG (International College of Neuromuscular Orthodontics and Gnathology, Italy) in 2006. He is the PIONEER in South Asia to use the ULF TENS and mandibular tracking device (K7) and hence start the super-specialty practice of Neuromuscular Dentistry in India in 2005. Dr. Rajesh is an AACP – Tufts certified Dental Sleep Medicine specialist after completing his residency programme on “TMJ and Sleep Medicine” at Tufts University, Boston, USA in 2011. He procured his Fellowship and Mastership from ICCMO (International College of Cranio Mandibular Orthopedics) in 2015. He received his honorary PhD from Ecole Superieure, University of Sorbonne in France in 2018. He is the Founder President of ICCMO India Section that was formed in 2017. He is also currently the International Secretary of the ICCMO International Board of Regents. He has occupied several positions in the IDA (Indian Dental Association).

Dr. Rajesh is the Managing Director of “Indra Craniofacial Pain Relief India LLP” which runs The Right Bite Duedent Neuromuscular Orthodontic Lab to fabricate licensed appliances in South Asia like ALF, DNA etc., and is a distributor for several NMD specific equipment like Myotronics, Gempro, Quicksplint etc. He is also the Chairman of the “The Right Bite Sleep & TMJ Pain Care®” that runs centres across South Asia to treat patients with craniofacial pain and conducts seminars/courses. He encourages the point that dentists are not just “Tooth-doctors”! He is a consultant TMJ/Sleep Medicine specialist at The Right Bite Sleep & TMJ Pain Care (Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata & Mumbai), KIMS (Trivandrum) & Korambayil Hospital (Manjeri) in India.

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