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    Today TMJ diseases/disorders (TMJDs) remain poorly understood and TMJ patients are still subjected to treatments that lack scientific validity. Many treatments actually worsen the condition. Clearly, basic and clinical research of the highest quality needs to be directed toward TMJ. At this time, the TMJ patients must look to the US government to fund innovative research that will:

    That is why your letters to policy makers are so important! Below we have listed and provided contact information for those people that have the capability to make a difference. Please send them the message we suggest or write your own and tell them how TMJDs have affected your life.

    Please copy us on your letter so that we are aware of the numbers of people sending letters and your concerns. In the event you receive a form letter in response to yours, we will see to it that your letter will reach the appropriate people.

    It is only through the united action of those who care about TMJ patients that change will come about.

    Background information: This is the 13th year that the United States Senate has advised the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve scientific research on TMJ diseases and disorders. We are grateful to Senators Harkin, Specter, and Kennedy for their many years of support, along with members of the Senate and House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Congress asked the NIH Director to ensure that a TMJ research agenda be completed with the collaboration and contribution of scientific expertise existing in many institutes of the National Institutes of Health. We have continuously advocated for such research because only through studying the entire patient will we begin to understand the "TMJ patient."

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