TMJ/TMJD

.	DEAR FRIENDS, Please note that JJAMD has had a change of address.	.
©	JJAMD, INC. Milton and Renée Glass, Co-Founders/Presidents 790 Boylston Street, Suite 17-G Boston, MA 02199 A 501(c)3 Non-Profit Advocacy Organization Established in 1982 as America's Pioneer TMJ Advocacy Organization Tel (617) 266 2550 E-Mail:TMJoints@gmail.com Website: www.TMJoints.org	©

	ANNOUNCEMENT JJAMD has not published its usual Progress Report on the website for a long time, because we sadly ran into a dilemma concerning The Glass Family TMJD Postdoctoral Fellowship at Forsyth. which created a moral and ethical dilemma for us, and which needed legal counsel to resolve. This dilemma even affected our ability to conduct usual business for the JJAMD Foundation. We plan to publish a more comprehensive report shortly, giving an historical account of the beginning, some significant outcomes, and current status. JJAMD has a lot more news to report, and we will do so in our next forthcoming entry. But, in the meantime, we have decided to include here a letter to the Massachusetts Attorney General, which we are now allowed to do so, because it is now a matter of public record. It captures the Four-Year History of the Fellowship, and the reason we ended our relationship with The Forsyth Institute after more than 25 years. The Fellowship is still alive, and is actually in the process of being re-settled in a new important Institute. Click here for the original press release announcing the fellowship Click here for the Letter from our Attorneys to the Attorney General
	IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT NOVEMBER IS JAW-JOINTS-TMJ AWARENESS MONTH® JJAMD encourages everyone, both patients and professionals, who has an interest in TMJ and overlapping pain and dysfunction \ or other related disorders, to participate in "JAW JOINTS - TMJ AWARENESS MONTH®." CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL CONGRESSIONAL PROCLAMATION

"Life revolves around the Jaw Joints in every motor and sensory activity, awake or asleep, 24 hours a day."

"Our mission is manifold ----- but Prevention is our passion!"

---Milton and Renée Glass
Co-Founders & Co-Presidents

Our Mission

JJAMD believes that TMJ is largely preventable through an appropriate high quality program of awareness,

education, and research.

Promotes education at all levels on the importance of healthy jaw joints and their relationship to total body health
Promotes the prevention of TMJ Disorders.
Fosters patient advocacy and encourages the formation of TMJ self-help groups nationally.
Sponsors and conducts independent research from the Patients' Perspective and advocates for basic scientific TMJ research.
Encourages the medical profession and medical research to help resolve the "TMJ Dilemma" and to "rejoin the jaw joints to all other joints in the body"

This illustration visually and at once symbolizes the Entire TMJ/TMJD Dilemma.
This illustration represents Milton and Renée personally as the "movers" of this co-joining philosophy.

It represents JJAMD's Advocacy role and mission and our Uphill struggle to push the MEDICAL PROFESSION
Please Click for additional information about this illustration

The TMJOINTS Website is a recipient of an IBS Tales Hope Award
The IBS Tales Hope Awards 2007 are currently being presented to websites that offer positive support and encouragement to anyone suffering from a chronic medical problem. In particular, the awards recognise websites that:

offer accurate information and resources for patients
encourage sufferers to search for new treatments and hope
refuse to accept inadequate medical advice or doctors who tell us to "learn to live with it"!

JJAMD promotes "Jaw Joints - TMJ Awareness©" throughout the year. In addition, we celebrate each month of November as "Jaw Joints - TMJ Awareness Month©" as introduced in 1997 by Congressman Barney Frank in the Congress of the United States.

The 1996 NIH Technology Assessment Conference [TAC] synthesizes The TMJ Dilemma and succinctly explains why JJAMD is unable to give specific medical/dental advice or referrals of any kind. The Conference report noted the absence of any universally accepted scientifically proven treatments and concluded that future advances in diagnosis and treatment requires collaboration of multidisciplinary fields involving basic and applied science and practice. The conference concluded "a Consensus must be developed regarding the professional expertise needed to diagnosis and treat these serious health problems." Here in 2002, there is still no significant improvement in this situation. But we are happy to report that there are some visible signs of positive changes happening, which is reported out on this website under: "Current News."

Until such time as TMJ becomes an acknowledged discipline, science, and recognized medical/dental specialty for the diagnosis and treatment of TMJ……..

JJAMD WILL CONTINUE TO BE UNABLE TO GIVE PATIENTS SPECIFIC MEDICAL/DENTAL ADVICE OR REFERRALS OF ANY KIND

TMJ/TMJD

"Life revolves around the Jaw Joints in every motor and sensory activity, awake or asleep, 24 hours a day."

Our Mission

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