Manual of Temporomandibular Disorders

While I was teaching temporomandibular disorder (TMD) to postgraduate residents, they often complained that they needed a concise, clinically relevant, evidence-based TMD book. Specifically, they wanted a book (1) written on the level for the average dentist or dental student, (2) focused on evidence-based diagnosis and multidisciplinary treatment for the majority of TMD patients, (3) that included guidelines on how to rule out disorders that mimic TMD and identify medical contributing factors for which patients may need to be referred, and (4) that detailed how to identify patients with complex TMD who are beyond the scope of most dentists.