Renowned personalities, institutes and universities:
there is a wide range of experts behind DIR® functional diagnostics!

The DIR® Concept for manual-clinical and instrumental functional diagnostics has been thoroughly examined and is continuously reviewed in light of new research interests. Users and scientists have long validated the DIR® procedure in a number of different studies. But one of the causes that the “Society for Functional Diagnostics” (DIR® System GmbH & Co. KG) continues to promote is interdisciplinary research. Research projects that it currently supports include studies on orthodontics, prosthetic materials and radiology (e.g. using MRI to assess the physiological positioning of condyles).

Please read these studies on the DIR® treatment concept and some of its relevant aspects:

• Zur Lagebestimmung des Unterkiefers in zentrischer Relation mit dem DIR® System
  (Determining the position of the mandible in centric relation using the DIR system) A. Dietzel¹ A. Zöllner^{2
  1}Dentistry Practice, Essen
  ²Department of Dental Prosthetics, Witten/Herdecke University
  Publication: Deutscher Ärzte Verlag, DZZ, Deutsche Zahnärztliche Zeitschrift, 2012; 67 (2)

• Der Einfluss verschiedener Registriertechniken auf die Kondylenposition und die elektromyographische Oberflächenaktivität bei stomatognath gesunden Probanden (The influence of various registration techniques on condyle positioning and electromyographic upper-surface activity in stomatognathically healthy patients)
  S. Linsen, A. Samai, H. Stark, M. Klitschmüller
  Outpatient Clinic for Dental Prosthetics, Propadeutics and Material Science, Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn
  Publication: The Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry, Issue: Vol. 107 No 1, January 2012, p. 1-72

• Evaluierung der Kondylenposition in Abhängigkeit verschiedener Registrierpositionen und unterschiedlichen Kieferschließkräfte
  (Evaluating condyle positioning depending on the way the registration tool is positioned and different jaw-closing strengths)
  I. Salas Ruiz de Arbulo, H. Stark, S. Linsen
  Outpatient Clinic for Dental Prosthetics, Propadeutics and Material Science, Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn

• Die Wirkung von Okklusionsschienentherapie bei CMD auf die zerebrale Steuerung der okklusalen Aufbissbewegung
  (The effect of occlusion-splint therapy on the cerebral control of occlusal opening movements in patients with TMD)
  M. Lotze¹, R. Lickteig^1,2, E. Weinert^1,2 B. Kordaß^{2
  1}Functional Imaging, Diagnostic Radiology, University of Greifswald Department for CAD/CAM and TMD Treatment, Clinical Medicine, Greifswald

• Untersuchung der Wirksamkeit einer zahnärztlichen Aufbisskorrektur bei Patienten mit Kopfschmerzen und craniomandibulärer Dysfunktion
  (Examination of the effectiveness of dental occlusion correction in patients with headaches and temporomandibular joint dysfunction)
  Felix J. Saha¹, Jochen Poth², Wojciech Kowalczyk³, Gustav J. Dobos^{1
  1}Chair for Integrative Medicine and Naturopathy, Essen Mitte Clinic
  ²Praxis Dr Poth und Partner, Essen
  ³Chair for Mechanics and Robotics, University of Duisburg

• Klinisch-radiologische Studie zur Evaluierung der physiologischen Kondylenposition im MRT 
  (Clinical-radiological study on the evaluation of physiological condyle positioning using MRI)
  UKB University Clinic Bonn, Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn, radprax - Gesellschaft für Medizinische Versorgungszentren mbH, Praxis Dr Blattner
  
  
• Klinisch-radiologische Studie zur Evaluierung der physiologischen Kondylenposition im MRT
  (Clinical-radiological study on the evaluation of physiological condyle positioning using MRI)
  UKB University Cinic Bonn, Rhine Friedrich-Wilhelm University Bonn, Practice Dr Blattner

• Studie über die Auswirkung der DIR® Schiene auf die Schnellkraft bei Sportlern mit CMD
  (Study on the effects of the DIR® bite splint on the speed of athletes with TMD)
  Prof Dr Ingo Froböse, German Sport University Cologne
  
  

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