Orofacial Disorders (PDF)

João Nuno Andrade Requicha Ferreira, DDS, MS, PhD, is the Deputy Clinical Coordinator of the TMD/Orofacial Pain Clinic at Singapore's National University Hospital, and an Assistant Professor and Senior Registrar at the Faculty of Dentistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore. In 2014, he has started the first multi- and inter-disciplinary Orofacial Pain Clinic in Singapore that is focused on state-of-the-art clinical management, research, and undergraduate and postgraduate training programs in orofacial pain. He was a previous clinical research fellow at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) at the US National Institutes of Health, and a consultant at the NIDCR's TMJ Implant Registry and Repository, University of Minnesota School of Dentistry, USA. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orofacial Pain, and the past-president of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Neuroscience Scientific Group as well as of the Integrated Clinical and Applied Biomedical Sciences Section (formerly Oral Biology) of the American Dental Education Association.

James R. Fricton, BS, DDS, MS, is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota Schools of Dentistry, Medicine and Public Health. He is also Senior Research Investigator for HealthPartners Institute and a pain specialist in the Minnesota Head and Neck Pain Clinic. Dr. Fricton has 30 years of full-time research, teaching, and clinical care, with a focus on temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and orofacial pain. His recent research has been on the development of on-line tools for improving teaching and care for chronic pain including his on-line course on preventing chronic pain at Coursera. He established one of the first interdisciplinary pain clinics and postgraduate training programs in TMD and orofacial pain. His past teaching and research has resulted in 5 textbooks and over 200 publications and abstracts. He served as President of the American Academy