Program 29 & 30 August 2025

 

Friday, August 29th, 2025

08.00-08.45 Registration

08.45-09.00 Welcome and organisational remarks 

09.00-10.00 Peter Svensson - Evolution of Orofacial Pain Concepts

10.00-11.00 Jens Christoph Türp - Occlusal Dysesthesia - Etiology, Assessment, Management

11.00-11.30 Coffee break & Poster session  

11.30-12.30 Rosaria Bucci- Functional and Non-Functional Oral Behaviours – What is the Role in the Development of TMD?

12.30-13.45 Lunch & Poster session

13.45-14.45 Vera Colombo - Lessons Learned from Temporomandibular Joint Modelling

14.45-15.45 Barry Gibson - Stigma's Shadow: Orofacial Pain and the Dental Encounter

15.45-16.15 Coffee break & Poster session  

16.15-16.30 Early Career Research Presentation 

16.30-17.30 Wendy Knibbe - TMD and Psychological trauma: the Importance of Integrating Psychological Factors into our Treatment Strategies.

17.30          Final remarks and closing of Day 1

18.30          Dinner (registration required)

 

Saturday, August 30th, 2025

08.45-9.00 Welcome 

09.00-10.00 Anna Lövgren - The Global Burden of Orofacial Pain

10.00-11.00 Birgitta Häggman-Henrikson - Macrotrauma and TMD

11.00-11.30 Coffee break & Poster session  

11.30-12.30 Bernd Lapatki - View on the Facial and Masticatory Motor Systems at a Motor Unit Level 

12.30-13.45 Lunch & Poster Session

13.45-14.45 Lars Arendt-Nielsen - Mechanism-Based Sensory and Epigenetic Pain Profiling in Chronic Pain

14.45-15.45 Michael Bornstein - Potential Use of AI for Diagnosis and Treatment of TMJ Diseases

15.45-16.15 Coffee break & Poster session  

16.15-17.15 Dominik Ettlin - Visualizing TMD Complexity by Digitalization

17.15 Closing of the meeting 

17.15-18.00 General Assembly