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Masticationpedia

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How Masticationpedia Works

Masticationpedia è un ambiente scientifico-editoriale aperto, dedicato allo studio dei fenomeni clinici complessi nella riabilitazione masticatoria. Nasce dall’osservazione che molti fallimenti clinici, incertezze diagnostiche e sofferenze prolungate dei pazienti non derivano da una carenza di abilità tecnica, ma da limiti strutturali nel modo in cui la conoscenza clinica viene organizzata, trasmessa e applicata. Per questo motivo Masticationpedia non è un corso, non è un social network professionale e non è un’enciclopedia tradizionale. È un ambiente di lavoro pensato per accompagnare i clinici proprio in quelle situazioni in cui protocolli standard, linee guida e modelli diagnostici lineari non sono più in grado di fornire risposte affidabili.

In pratica, Masticationpedia funziona come un percorso progressivo.

🧠 Dall’accesso alla comprensione Una parte dei contenuti di Masticationpedia è disponibile in modalità open access. In particolare, i capitoli che rientrano nella sezione Normal Science sono liberamente consultabili e rappresentano il punto di partenza per comprendere lo stato attuale delle conoscenze cliniche. L’accesso riservato, invece, consente di esplorare i livelli successivi di riflessione – Crisis of Paradigm ed Extraordinary Science – dove vengono analizzati i limiti dei modelli tradizionali, le anomalie cliniche e le ipotesi paradigmatiche emergenti. È in questo spazio che diventano possibili il confronto strutturato, la discussione dei capitoli e l’utilizzo degli strumenti di supporto allo studio e al ragionamento clinico.

Il primo livello di interazione con Masticationpedia è l’accesso ai contenuti scientifici ed editoriali,

Questo primo passaggio – accesso e lettura – è ciò che rende significativi i passaggi successivi.

Prepara il terreno per 👉 Subscription as support for a working environment, perché lo studio serio richiede continuità, percorsi curati e strumenti che riducano il rumore informativo. Subscription should not be understood as the purchase of content, nor as a shortcut to professional recognition. Its function is to support a reserved working environment in which study, reflection, and clinical reasoning can develop with continuity and depth. Through subscription, clinicians gain access to structured reading pathways, selected and commented scientific updates, and tools designed to support understanding rather than provide automatic answers. This level is intentionally conceived for professionals who wish to study seriously, without the pressure to immediately expose themselves or participate actively.

Chiarisce inoltre perché **Participation as a conscious choice** non può essere immediata né forzata: la discussione diventa realmente utile solo quando la comprensione è maturata.

Stabilisce poi perché **Affiliation as an outcome, not a product** dipende dal contributo e dalla coerenza, e non dal pagamento.

Ed esprime infine la natura stessa di Masticationpedia come 🏁 A living project, not a finished system. Masticationpedia does not offer ready-made solutions or universal answers. It offers structure, time, and a shared space in which uncertainty is not denied, but actively worked through. Those who enter Masticationpedia do so to understand better. Those who remain do so because they recognize its value. Those who eventually become affiliated do so because they contribute to its evolution. This progressive logic — from access, to subscription, to participation, and eventually to affiliation — is not a funnel and not a hierarchy. It is a pathway. Each step is open, but none is forced.

La conoscenza clinica evolve infatti attraverso il lavoro condiviso, non attraverso una pubblicazione statica.

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Approved Members

Some approved members from LinkedIn profiles who are going to form the Scientific community.... 🔬 A paradigmatic approach Masticationpedia is inspired by the insights of Kuhn and Feyerabend: science sometimes advances in a non-linear, "anarchic" way without predefined authorities.
🎯 Targeted selectivity We seek professionals passionate about basic research and clinical-social innovation. To ensure authenticity, access is exclusively through a verified LinkedIn profile.
🤝 Authoritative community Approved members – renowned scholars with a critical spirit – form our Scientific Community. Only they will collectively decide which chapters to publish, surpassing the narrow model of traditional referees.
🧠 Innovative evaluation The review process, supported by a conceptual AI algorithm, neither definitively rejects nor approves but assigns each contribution a "specific weight" (low, moderate, high). The final decision always rests with the Community.
🌱 A gift to humanity When and if you decide to contribute, you will become part of this evolving project, designed for a shared and responsible evolution of knowledge.

Ramakanth Reddy Dubbudu

Ali Esquembre Kučukalić

Kemal Sitki Türker

Maurizio Giacomello

Andrei Khrennikov

Masticationpedia Projects

🩺 Why collective support for independent clinical research is needed

Some patients, featured in the clinical cases collected in the Masticationpedia Book Index, have suffered for years due to misdiagnoses or missed diagnoses. In some cases, the suffering lasted for decades until a fatal outcome, without medicine – neither dental nor neurological – being able to provide a clinically sustainable explanation, let alone a cure. These patients did not have invisible diseases. They had complex problems, which lie at the intersection of dental occlusion, the neurophysiological system, and psychosomatic functions. Problems that conventional medicine, as it is structured today, is not able to address systemically. Routine dentistry does not possess – nor can it acquire on its own – advanced interdisciplinary neurophysiological know-how. In many cases, even the general neurologist does not fully understand the mechanisms of interaction between occlusion, trigeminal pain, and neuromotor behavior. This is why Masticationpedia was created. And this is why collective support is needed.

— Masticationpedia Scientific Committee

💡 Why Open Collective?

Masticationpedia projects are not tied to private universities or industrial funding. They are built and shared by doctors, physicists, engineers, and researchers who collaborate voluntarily to produce predictive diagnostic models and useful clinical tools. The funds raised through do not generate any profit for the founders. This is not an investment, nor a purchase. It is an ethical donation, with public and transparent reporting, in support of the clinical medicine of the future.