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February 22, 2012

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The International RDC-TMD Consortium Web site is back up, and new member logins have been distributed by e-mail.

PLEASE NOTE (1/4/2012): Members' usernames have been changed. Please use your e-mail address as your username.

The Consortium is supported, as a Network, by the International Association for Dental Research. Our goal is to advance the scientific knowledge of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) and related pain conditions through authenticated tools for international use, multi-site and cross-cultural research studies based on standardized assessment, annual meetings, and international consensus workshops. Our tools are intended to be applicable to both research and clinical settings.

The core tool that established the Consortium, the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD), remains a model for pain research. That tool is being updated for clinical use (DC/TMD) and for the next wave of research regarding TMDs and how they are conceptualized (RDC/TMDv2). Our methods include population studies, clinical epidemiology and clinical trials, and experimental human studies. Please contact us if you are interested in participating in our activities; our past meetings will give you an idea of what we do.

Announcements

RDC/TMD version 2 workshop (posted 4/4/2011)

The Consortium and the Orofacial Pain SIG of the IASP cosponsored a second invitational workshop, held at IADR/San Diego 2011, for the purpose of finalizing content of the second version of the RDC/TMD. Consortium members can review the meeting presentations and will be invited to review and comment on the next stage of developments. Stay tuned for more details.

RDC/TMD Validation Project (posted 11/5/2010)

Examiner specifications are available .

Symposium IADR 2010 - Barcelona, Spain (posted 11/5/2010)

Diagnostic Criteria for TMD (DC/TMD): A new version of the RDC/TMD (details and slides).

Website Updates

(4/10/2011) The website was moved on the server in order to improve functionality of the underlying software code. In the process, all links to internal pages and documents were lost, and the website had to be reconstructed. Pages were edited in the process, and new content was added. Please send suggestions for further improvement and any bad links to Ohrbach.

(11/5/2010) A new section, Research Protocols (under Other Resources), has been added. Consortium members may place any study materials that they would like to share with other investigators. Access can be open to the public or can be closed to Consortium members only.

(2009) Major topics and minutes are now available for all Annual meetings of the Consortium.

If you wish to discuss the content of this site, contact Richard Ohrbach (ohrbach@buffalo.edu).
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