Tufts Craniofacial Pain Center – Advanced Clinical and Didactic TMD & Orofacial Pain Mini-Residency 2025 – 2026

Learning Objectives

• Comprehend the neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurotransmitters involved in pain, and the international classification of orofacial pain.
• Learn a comprehensive assessment of TMD and orofacial pain patients, including clinical history, examination, differential diagnosis, and plan of care.
• Understand the international classification of headache disorders, including pathogenesis, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and standard management of migraines, tension-type headaches, trig&#233
• minal autonomic cephalalgias, and other headaches disorders.
• Acquire knowledge about neuralgias and intraoral pain disorders such as trigeminal neuralgia, neuropathic pain, odontogenic and non-odontogenic pain disorders.
• Comprehend the occlusal and skeletal factors contributing to TMD, orofacial pain, and headaches
• assessment and treatment modalities of temporomandibular joint and masticatory muscle disorders, and the use and understanding of different hard and soft tissue imaging.
• Learn the use, limitations, and clinical effects of Botulin Toxin in the management of myofascial pain, headaches, and other pain conditions.
• Learn the interaction between sleep and pain, common sleep disorders associated with headaches, and the clinical presentation and management of common oromandibular movement disorders.
• Understand the risk assessment of psychological and medical factors
• behavioral management, and pharmacotherapy approach to TMD and orofacial pain patients.