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Dear participants of the course “Clinical Functional Analysis | Manual Structural Analysis | Diagnosis” in Feldkirchen/Munich

My father died this week, so I’m only now getting around to compiling all the slides presented in Feldkirchen on both days of the course, as promised, and posting them for you to download. I had projected the password for you on site, first letter large, the rest small!

To deepen your knowledge and put it into practice, I gave you further tips, here are the corresponding links:

• Website for the CMDfact software and its modules.
  • Video instructions for using the CMDfact DiagnosePilot.
  • Video on the diagnosis of tooth wear with the CMDfact module CMDbrux.
  • When you order CMDfact, you will receive a download link and the personal activation codes.
    I recommend that your admin writes an email to hotline@dentaConcept.de and arranges an appointment for installation.
• The analog list of the German Dental Association contains the analog service manual structural analysis, reference service is 8030.
• DGFDT website with guidelines on functional therapy (specification of a structured diagnosis) and treatment with occlusal splints.

Deepen your knowledge:

• Website dentaConcept with the book Clinical Functional Analysis
• Curriculum function with me and Prof. Jakstat: Contact the Hamburg Dental Association.
• Botulinum toxin injection course under ultrasound control (on the cadaver!): The upcoming course on 8.5.2026 is already fully booked. If you would like to attend the next course, simply send an e-mail to Verlag@dentaconcept.de and we will inform you.

It was very nice with you, thank you for the numerous contacts on Instagram: Ahlers.CMD.

Best regards

Oliver Ahlers

Dear colleagues, please find attached the course slides on functional therapy in an updated form.
It was a lot of fun working with you – enjoy the implementation!

Oliver Ahlers & Holger Jakstat

Dear Collegues,
as promises I hereby provide my presentation at te VieSID Summer School this July in Vienna. I would like to thank everybody for the warm welcome and the positive resonance and hope to see you soon agaain in keynotes on Cllinical Functional Analysis, Manual Structional Analysis and thooth wear Diagnosis, based on optimzed strategy and mathcing digital systems.
In the meantime, have a look at my Instagram account Ahlers.CMD.
Best regards
Oliver Ahlers

Dear colleagues,
As promised, I am putting the presentation online for you here. You will find a little more information about computer-assisted diagnosis, our research work, which shows that the results are better than when making a diagnosis without the support of DiagnosePilot. More information and a novelty next Tue, July 8, 2025 at 6:15 pm on Zoom, link on p.2 in the presentation. Best regards – Oliver Ahlers

Dear colleagues,

So that you can understand the contents if necessary, I have put them here for you to download as a handout. If necessary, zoom in a little. Good luck with the recapitulation!

Oliver Ahlers

In the CMD and bruxism lecture, I presented the Memobite occlusal plate as a means of transferring the habitual occlusion during treatment with dentures. As promised, you can download the slides here. I gave you the password in the lecture.

Dear colleagues,

Ms. Hohendorf sent me the current mailing on the “ur” label, and I have also included it in the relevant section and in the summary. The question about treatment with occlusal splints was included and is now visually enhanced. Many thanks for the warm welcome in Bremen and best regards – Oliver Ahlers

Dear course participants from Feldkirchen,

As promised, you will now find the course slides for billing functional analysis and therapy services here. Once you know how to do it, you can easily build the rest with your practice management software, which is then just work….

The other presentations will follow this evening

Kind regards from Hamburg – Oliver Ahlers

Dear colleagues,

So that you can understand the contents if necessary, I have put them here for you to download as a handout. If necessary, zoom in a little. Good luck with the recapitulation!

Oliver Ahlers

Certain situations require treatment with restoration of the tooth contours, the tooth volumes and the corrected (re-)adjustment of the jaw joints to a physiological position. Such treatments are rare and extremely difficult because they require the complete – and correct – adjustment of the jaw position in a single step, without overloading the body’s ability to adapt. This is all the more challenging if the patient has an increased sensitivity to changes in tooth contact. The procedure was developed around the 2000s in Hamburg and Munich, with the core element of recontouring all teeth in non-occlusion with a physiological temporomandibular joint position in ONE step using indirect restorations – and then replacing these in groups with prepared dental ceramic restorations in a later step. The results of a study on the durability of this material from…

During condylar position analysis, the findings are recorded on the condylar position measuring instrument using corresponding color markings. The labels are then removed and transferred to a condylar position analysis measurement sheet. These instructions explain in detail how to complete the form.

Below you will find illustrated instructions for the dental fabrication of the Eppendorf centric registration template. Please note that this illustration reflects the status of the first edition of the workbook “Restorative Dentistry with the Artex System”. Compared to these instructions, three important details were improved with the publication of the second edition of the book in 1998:
– three additional stops on the upper side of the plate regio 12-22 as “tilt indicators”
– marking of the upper midline on the plastic plate
– posterior stops on the upper side in the molar region on the last molars!
These three changes considerably improve the usability of the plate registrations. Therefore, please be sure to inform your dental technician of these changes. The second edition of the book is also available again.

Understanding the relevance of condylar position analysis is easy, but implementing the procedure requires the right tools and knowledge of the legal situation and billing principles. In this short guide you will find everything summarized once again.

Dear students,
Thank you very much for your attentive interest during my seminar. I promised you access to the original publication describing the set of rules that I presented to you in the seminar and in the script. You can download the paper here by clicking on the title. And if you want to know how often it is cited in Researchgate alone, click here…

In addition to the publication in Int J Comp. Dent. I have developed animated films with my colleagues Dr. Blunck, Prof. Frankenberger, Dr. Hajto and Prof. Pröbster that show the procedure for preparing ceramic inlays. I also showed these in the seminar. Dr. Hajto was responsible for turning them into animations. A compilation of some of the films shown in the lecture is freely available on the Internet. Click on this link. The films have been produced in a manufacturer-neutral manner. Komet Dental has requested and received permission to show the appropriate grinders and is posting the film on the Internet, but is neither the author nor the client of the film – just to give you an idea of how it works.

Yours, Oliver Ahlers

Issue IV 2013 of the Journal of Craniomandibular Function (CMF) published an article on the optimized procedure for condylar position analysis. If you are not a subscriber, you can find it here and also on this page.