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What is Masticationpedia
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.Il primo livello di interazione con Masticationpedia è l’accesso ai contenuti scientifici ed editoriali che sostanzialmente sono i capitoli nel book index.Dall’accesso alla comprensione
I capitoli sono organizzati secondo una struttura epistemologica precisa, che distingue ciò che attualmente funziona nella pratica clinica, i punti in cui i paradigmi esistenti mostrano i loro limiti e le aree in cui possono essere esplorate nuove ipotesi interpretative. In questo contesto, la lettura non è concepita come consumo passivo di informazioni, ma come un processo di orientamento.
Il suo scopo è aiutare il clinico a riconoscere pattern, anomalie e punti ciechi concettuali che spesso rimangono invisibili nella pratica routinaria. Questo primo passaggio (accesso e lettura) è anche ciò che rende significativi i passaggi successivi che preparano il terreno per la 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 perché Participation as a conscious choice non può essere immediata né forzata: la discussione diventa realmente utile solo quando la comprensione è maturata; Participation represents a subsequent step and is never mandatory.
It becomes meaningful when reading alone is no longer sufficient, and the clinician feels the need to confront ideas, doubts, and clinical reasoning with others. Within Masticationpedia, participation takes the form of chapter discussion, shared reflection grounded in clinical experience, and contribution to a collective reasoning process. This space is deliberately structured and moderated in order to preserve scientific coherence and protect intellectual contributions. Not everyone needs to participate. Those who do, do so because they recognize value in thinking together. e stabilisce perché Affiliation as an outcome, not a product dipende dal contributo e dalla coerenza, e non dal pagamento; Affiliation to the Masticationpedia Network is not something that can be purchased, requested, or accelerated.
It is the natural outcome of a path based on informed reading, constructive participation, scientific coherence, and real contribution to the project.Affiliated members may be involved in advanced educational activities, editorial initiatives, or interdisciplinary projects. The purpose of affiliation is not visibility or status, but responsibility: contributing to a community capable of addressing complex clinical problems with intellectual honesty and methodological rigor. ed infine esprime la natura stessa di Masticationpedia come A living project, 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.
How to Participate
Reading Masticationpedia is open to everyone, but only verified LinkedIn members can actively shape the project.
1️⃣ Discuss chapters with peers – Comment on chapters, ask questions, and share clinical insights in a professional, moderated environment.
2️⃣ Join the Scientific Community – Become part of the Masticationpedia Scientific Community and of the future Bioethics Committee, helping to define priorities, criteria and ethical standards for new content and projects.
3️⃣ Contribute to chapters as an author – Help translate, correct and update chapters. When your contribution is integrated into a chapter, you are acknowledged as a co-author or contributor, with full authorship traceability.
This selective access via LinkedIn guarantees transparency, scientific quality and protection of intellectual contributions. .
The Book Index represents the beating heart of Masticationpedia. It is not a traditional encyclopedia, nor an editorial journal. Rather, it is a democratic and collaborative knowledge model, where only carefully selected professionals – recognized as authoritative voices in their scientific field – share their know-how with the community, whether scientific or broader.
🎯 Two fundamental principles
The project is distinguished by two essential characteristics:
- A coherent thematic direction: all contributions follow a precise conceptual track – the theme of complex masticatory rehabilitations – avoiding the random publication of disconnected articles. This approach ensures coherence, scientific continuity, and editorial credibility.
- A philosophical-paradigmatic function: each content aims to highlight the anomalies of clinical and scientific reality, offering a critical reading of existing paradigms and stimulating reflection and innovation.
🧭 A three-level structure
The Book Index is divided into three macro-areas, organized according to a path of increasing depth in scientific reflection:
🔹 Normal Science": describes the state of the clinical-scientific art in the pathophysiology of the masticatory system. It is the starting point for understanding the current context.
🔹 Crisis of Paradigm highlights the conceptual anomalies and methodological limits of conventional diagnostic models. Here, dogmas, validation criteria, and unsustainable clinical approaches are questioned.
🔹 Extraordinary Science: proposes new New clinical paradigms in the field of masticatory functions. It is the advanced laboratory where knowledge evolves and regenerates.
This step represents a fundamental stage in the professional's journey, endowed with a dual value: a formative component, and a distinctive one.
🎓 Formative value
Through the structured study of the contents present in the Book Index, the clinician consolidates an advanced know-how in the field of complex masticatory rehabilitations. This training is not limited to theory but translates into operational skills that range:
🔹 from the diagnosis of orofacial pain
🔹 to implant-prosthetic rehabilitations
🔹 to orthodontic and orthognathic multidisciplinary approaches
The result is an integrated, systemic training that connects pathophysiology to the therapeutic plan in a coherent and updated manner.
🔖 Distinctive value
At the same time, the clinical application of these contents translates into a 🎯 consciously neurophysiological professional practice. The professional who adopts this vision:
🔹 proposes treatments centered on the real physiology of the masticatory system
🔹 differentiates from conventional approaches still tied to obsolete or dogmatic schemes
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.
Citation
The theory is when we know everything but nothing works.
Practice is when everything works but no one knows why.
In our case, we always unite theory with practice: nothing works and we don’t know why.— Albert Einstein
Masticationpedia Projects
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🩺 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. — Masticationpedia Scientific Committee |
