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Have you ever encountered the patient with all the signs of bruxism/parafunction, yet they deny this passionately? I see this daily. Patients are in denial that they parafunction \u2013 how can we communicate better with these patients?\n\n\n\nI am joined on this Protrusive Dental Podcast episode by Dr Barry Oulton to help us communicate better with bruxers!\n\n\n\nNeed to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below!\n\n\n\nIn this episode, which has a brilliant Protrusive Dental Pearl about \u2018colouring in your dental splints\u2019, we discuss:\n\n\n\nHow to get patients to accept accountability of their parafunction and how it may attribute to restoration failureAre you looking for the signs of parafunction in your patients?Travell and Simon pain chart for referred pain\n\n\n\nMuscle examination video (linked below)The role of your team in communicating BruxismHow to show patients their wear facetsWhat if your patient declines a splint? (They are allowed to!) How to communicate with them the consequencesHave you ever restored an incisal edge that keeps chipping?Use analogies and stories to communicate \u2013 here we share the Fence Post analogySci splints and B splintsHow to PROVE to your patients with a splint that they have actively been grinding on it!\n\n\n\nDr Barry Oulton B.Ch.D DPDS MNLP, Owner, The Confident Dentist Academy\n\n\n\nDr Barry Oulton owned Haslemere Dental Centre in Surrey for 20 years, turning it into an award-winning practice with a reputation for outstanding customer service before joining the Portman Dental Care Group in 2018.\xa0 In 2017, he founded The Confident Dentist Academy\xa0to help dental professionals learn effective communication skills and sell with integrity so they can have more impact and make a bigger difference, both professionally and personally.\n\n\n\nHis 2 day course \u2018Influencing Smiles\u2019 course teaches Dentists and their teams how to communicate and sell\xa0 that translates into happy patients, a great working environment and, ultimately, sees profit increase.\xa0 He also offer in-house training programming and coaching for practices and dental companies and also online training products.\n\n\n\nHe is on the editorial\xa0board for The Probe and\xa0lectures for companies such as Septodont, Cerezen, S4S, Practice Plan, Henry Schein and Wisdom Toothbrushes.\xa0\n\n\n\nHis website is \u2013 www.theconfidentdentist.com\n\n\n\nTake a look at his muscle exam video which is currently on www.theconfidentdentist.com/s4s which is very helpful demonstration of how to carry out a dentally relevant muscle examination.\n\n\n\nSocial media sites \u2013 Twitter \u2013 @drbarryoulton\xa0\n\n\n\nFacebook \u2013 The Confident Dentist\xa0\n\n\n\nInstagram \u2013 drbarryoulton\xa0\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClick below for full episode transcript:\n\n\n\nOpening Snippet: I don't believe that dentistry should be done in order to treat parafunction. I think it should be done once we've protected people from parafunction so that dentistry is a choice rather than a necessity...\n\n\n\nJaz's Introduction: Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining me today. I'm Jaz Gulanti. And this is the protrusive Dental podcast episode 11. I'm joined today by Barry Oulton really excited to have him on because he is someone who lectures all over the country about communicating with patients. And he also lectures about parafunction and parafunction control. So what I decided to do and the reason I approached him was to marry these two together about an episode about how to communicate with Bruxists. It's a huge topic is something that's probably born out of frustration, my earlier years when I used to speak to patients and the signs of parafunction are obvious to me at one stage they weren't when I learned what I was looking for. And we'll discuss that in this episode, it becomes obvious, you know, patients that exhibit signs of parafunction. When you speak to these patients, invariably, they actually deny the fact that their parafunction, I don't know, I don't grind my teeth. And there's a there's a way you can approach this so that they can actually ta...