HeyJaredDown Fracture- A Podcast for Talkin' Jaws
Standing firmly somewhere between the worst and best jaw surgery podcasts of all time, we bring you Down Fracture, A Podcast for Talkin' Jaws. Down Fracture is intended for Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons and other healthcare professionals interested in learning about jaw surgery.
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Building a Career Around Global Jaw Surgery With Dr. Shahid Aziz | Down Fracture Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Bobek and Dr. Wasson are joined by Dr. Shahid Aziz, an academic oral and maxillofacial surgeon in New Jersey. Dr. Aziz spent twenty years on full-time faculty at Rutgers and now leads the development of an oral surgery department and training program at Hackensack Meridian Health. He trained at Harvard and at Columbia under Dr. Steven Roser, performs over 200 orthognathic cases a year, and founded Smile Bangladesh in 2005, a nonprofit that has now run 34 cleft and orthognath
Why TMD Patients Fall Through the Cracks with Dr. Suzie Bergman | Down Fracture Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Bobek and Dr. Wasson are joined by Dr. Suzie Bergman, DDS, FTMJF, a general dentist in Vancouver, Washington, Adjunct Associate Professor at Pacific Northwest University School of Dental Medicine, Fellow of the TMJ Foundation, and Visiting Research Scholar in Neurological Surgery at OHSU. Dr. Bergman is also a TMD patient: a jaw injury at 19 led to two open joint procedures and, eventually, bilateral custom total joint replacement. She joins the podcast the week after speaki
Is MARPE Needed Before MMA? Where the Evidence Stands (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Bobek and Dr. Wasson take on a question both of them hear regularly in consultation: whether patients should undergo maxillary expansion (MARPE, MSE, DOME, EASE) before maxillomandibular advancement for obstructive sleep apnea. They cover who they think expansion is for, what is and is not established about nasal airway change compared with segmental Le Fort, and the cost, time, and surgical trade-offs of doing both. Dr. Wasson also shares a six-week post-operative MMAW case
Grace and Positive Self Talk in Jaw Surgery (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Bobek and Dr. Wasson talk about how surgeons evaluate themselves when an outcome is not what they planned. They cover where critical appraisal stops being useful and starts being punishment, why both of them are harder on themselves than on other surgeons, and how surgical training builds the habit in the first place. Topics covered in this episode: - Whether you are harder on yourself or on the surgeons whose revisions you inherit - The duality of doing the work well and ac
Rewriting the TMJ Treatment Algorithm With Dr. Gary Bouloux | Down Fracture Podcast (opens the original)
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In this episode, Dr. Bobek and Dr. Wasson are joined by Dr. Gary Bouloux, chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Emory University. Dr. Bouloux chaired the AAOMS special committee that produced the 2024 TMJ management guidelines, and he represented the specialty at the FDA and National Academies meetings on temporomandibular disorders that preceded them. He performs roughly 300 arthroscopies a year and is currently on the committee revising those guidelines. The discussion covers where the tr
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