LIVE INTERVIEW WITH BILL ESSER TMJ & TRAUMA: PT / DDS CONNECTION
Bill Esser, PT, CCTT

You bring your questions and Bill Esser will provide the answers. Join Bill, along with AAPMD Physical Therapy Section Leader Brad Gilden, in a lively discussion of the important role of PT/ DDS collaborative diagnosis and treatment for TMD.

Bill Esser, PT, CCTT, graduated in 1979 with a master’s degree from Purdue University and in 1981 from the University of Iowa Graduate Program in Physical Therapy. Bill ‘s career has been as an outpatient orthopedic physical therapist including being an owner/partner in private practices in Southern Oregon 1986-2013. He retired from ownership in 2013 to concentrate on teaching. He is a diplomate of the Physical Therapy Board of Craniofacial Therapeutics, established in 1999 by an international group of physical therapists, and holds the title Certified Cervical and Temporomandibular Therapist (CCTT). There are fewer than 100 diplomates worldwide. Bill has almost 4 decades of multidisciplinary training and clinical experience in management of TMD, complex facial pain, and cranial and cervical spine dysfunction. In 2019 he completed a dental mini residency under Jeff Okeson, DMD.

Bill has been an instructor for Empiridence and Myopain Seminars, Professional Therapies Northwest, the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Dentistry, the Oregon Physical Therapy Association, Oregon’s State Dental Association, and as an adjunct instructor on TMD for the Schools of Physical Therapy at Pacific University and George Fox University. In 2011 and 2015 Bill was a speaker at the OBI Foundation for Bioesthetic Dentistry National Conferences. Bill is the coauthor with Jenny Hobson, DPT, of an editorial in the March 2022 issue of The Journal of Craniomandibular & Sleep Practice on the relationship of dental occlusion, posture and back pain.

1 CE credit available to AAPMD members