“JAW JOINTS –TMJ - AWARENESS MONTH” ®
PLEASE NOTE: The following
announcement appears on The TMJ Association [TMJA] website: www.tmj.org Click on:
What's New - Late Breaking News
“November is “JAW
JOINTS – TMJ AWARENESS MONTH” ®
To learn how you can become involved, contact “Jaw Joints & Allied Musculo-Skeletal Disorders Foundation” [JJAMD] at www.tmjoints.org/eventsnew/helpmake.htm The TMJ
Association is proud of the efforts of JJAMD and urges your participation to
help bring greater awareness to TMJ diseases/disorders. Additional information about JJAMD can be
found on their Web site at www.tmjoints.org.”
JJAMD
is equally proud of The TMJ Association’s valuable
participation in this most important project—the creation of greater awareness
for this significantly large population of existing TMJ Patients. In addition it will promote prevention for
those who are at risk of becoming the future TMJ Patients from this very lack
of awareness. Both organizations have
prevailed on governmental agencies, congressional delegations, public and
private health agencies, insurers, university clinics and educators, and the
patients themselves to come on board to help the broader public. Most recently we have concentrated on NIDCR
to spearhead a quality program of broad public awareness and health promotion
tying in with “JAW JOINTS – TMJ
AWARENESS MONTH” ® NIDCR has indicated
they are working towards an awareness program, which we believe is the proper
direction in which to proceed—in other words, from the top down. While hopeful, at this point in time there is
no guarantee that this will happen.