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Dr. Leon Grant Metta Mentor and Co-authoring Metta Workbooks for Metta4All
Dr. Leon Grant is currently a Metta mentor and co-authoring Metta workbooks for Metta4All.
His professional career in dentistry, for 30 years, included an emphasis on the multifaceted treatment of Temporo Mandibular Dysfunction (TMJ) patients with head, neck, and face pain/dysfunction. His work with these individuals allowed Dr. Grant to become a compassionate practitioner with pain patients, which has facilitated his development as a Metta Mentor. The integration of the Metta Method for Stress Reduction has proven to be of complimentary benefit with each of the traditional treatment modalities .
Dr. Grant graduated from The University of Michigan, School of Dentistry and completed Post Doctoral studies in Michigan and San Diego, Ca.. He also trained at the UCSD Medical School Hospital Hillcrest, in San Diego, with the Head, Neck, and Face Pain Clinic.
Dr. Grant has also been a Human Resources Consultant for many years and he was a principle owner and co-founder of Doable Productions a learning design company that designed programs to help individuals build relationships in large organizations, private and corporate.
Upon learning of or experiencing health issues, it is common for TMD to develop, in the person experiencing problems or by a sympathy response by a family member. The potential for TMD to arise under stressful circumstances is high and especially significant in women.
Dr. Grant states, “The main factor for patients in pain and those associated with pain patients is to understand no matter what the cause of pain it is very real to the patient and should be taken seriously, authenticated or validated." Similarly, health issues are real and to be acknowledged by the person involved and the friends and family around them. Health concerns are systemic to the family and their immediate community of friends. All are affected in some way.
The traditional treatment for TemporoMandibular Dysfunction involves psychological evaluation, physical therapy and/or chiropractic treatment including muscle coordination exercises, psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, PTSD and other disorders, stress reduction therapy (bio-feedback and other modalities), night guards and orthotic appliances, movement of the teeth (orthodontics), medications, and possible surgery in a small % of severe cases.
Many think of nightguards and bitesplints for grinding (bruxism) and clenching in this disease; the fact is TMD is a “syndrome” encompassing many factors, stress being a very significant causative agent. Although, nightguards are a useful tool in treatment of TMD it is with a multifaceted approach to treatment, as described, which has a 75% successful rate, almost mandatory. Metta may be considered as a stress reduction tool in any approach to pain treatment.
