Fellowship Course

Join the premier course on learning to manage the TMJ patient in a safe and predictable fashion.  Four experts – Dr Miles Poor (Course director), Dr Simonas Grybauskas, Dr Mindaugas Stacevičius and Dr Mantas Vaitiekūnas – will be there to share 40 years of successful interventions and outcomes in managing the TMJ patient from a surgical standpoint.

Preliminary Program

Monday, Sept 25
Venue: Holiday Inn Hotel (address: Šeimyniškių g. 1, 09312 Vilnius)

16:00 Welcome lecture. Course outline and goals.

16:30 Lecture: Micro-disc TMJ surgery and the anatomical reasoning for this approach.

18:00 Happy Hour & Dinner

Tuesday, Sept 26
Venue: Kardiolita Clinic (address: Laisvės ave. 64A, 05263 Vilnius)

7:00 Surgical cases presentation

7:30 Case 1 surgery

12:00 Lunch

12:40 Case 2 Surgery

16:30 Lecture: MRI of TMJ

17:45 Lecture: Diagnosing the asymmetric growing patient. The use of Surface-based and Voxel-based superimpositions as the new gold standard

19:00 Happy hour/ dinner

Wednesday, Sept 27
Venue: Kardiolita Clinic (address: Laisvės ave. 64A, 05263 Vilnius)

7:00 Surgical cases presentation

7:30 Case 1

12:00 Lunch

12:40 Case 2

16:30 Lecture: Arthrocentesis and it’s role in managing TMJ patients

17:15 Lecture: Retrodiscal Cauterization Vs Menisectomy.  Co-Ablation use in managing retrodiscal tissues

19:00 Happy Hour/ dinner

Thursday, Sept 28
Venue: Kardiolita Clinic (address: Laisvės ave. 64A, 05263 Vilnius)

7:00 Surgical case presentations

7:30 Case 1

12:00 Lunch

12:40 Case 2

16:30 Lecture: Condylectomy via micro disc approach.  Managing the asymmetric patient.

18:30 Happy Hour/ Dinner

Friday, Sept 29
Venue: Kardiolita Clinic (address: Laisvės ave. 64A, 05263 Vilnius)

7:00 Surgical case presentations

7:30 Case 1

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Lecture: Post op protocols for surgical patients.  Drugs/ Diets/ Physical Therapy

15:00 Participants case reviews

16:00 Wrap-up discussion & Certificates

While we can’t promise that all your cases will have perfect outcomes( these are facial pain patients after all) we do want to show you that moving these patients along their disease course without harming them will leave you much more comfortable treating these difficult cases.   We are not going to give you lists of articles to substantiate our presentations.  We all have access to literature reviews on the subject.  We are here to share 40 years of successful interventions and outcomes managing the TMJ patient from a surgical standpoint.   

We hope you will develop a keen interest in helping this complex group of patients and help train the next generation of Micro Disc Surgeons.

Please note that attendance is limited to a maximum of 6 participants.

For registration please contact us at learn@bscoso.com.