The TMJ Association has held the following prestigious scientific meetings in Bethesda, Maryland. Speaker abstracts, meeting agendas, as well as issues of the TMJ Science, a science journal, which contains the summary and recommendations of our scientific meetings are listed below.

First Scientific Meeting - Moving Temporomandibular Joint Research into the 21st Century

• View TMJ Science, Volume 1, Number 1, January 2001 (.pdf)

Second Scientific Meeting - Joint and Muscle Dysfunction of the Temporomandibular Joint

• View 2002 meeting agenda (.pdf)
• View 2002 speaker abstracts (.pdf)
• View TMJ Science, Volume 2, Number 1, January 2003 (.pdf)

Third Scientific Meeting Association - Advancing Diagnostic Approaches for TMJ Diseases and Disorders

• View 2004 meeting agenda (.pdf)
• View 2004 speaker abstracts (.pdf)
• View TMJ Science, Volume 3, Number 1, May 2005 (.pdf)

Fourth Scientific Meeting - A Systems Approach to the Understanding of TMJ as a Complex Disease

• View 2006 meeting agenda (.pdf)
• View 2006 speaker abstracts (.pdf)
• View TMJ Science, Volume 4, Number 1, September 2007 (.pdf)

Fifth Scientific Meeting - Can Studies of Comorbidities with TMJDs Reveal Common Mechanisms of Disease?

• View 2008 meeting agenda (.pdf)
• View 2008 meeting abstracts (.pdf)
• View TMJ Science, Volume 5, Number 1, June 2009 (.pdf)

Sixth Scientific Meeting - Comorbid Chronic Pain Conditions - Mechanisms, Diagnosis and Treatments

• View 2011 meeting agenda (.pdf
• View 2011 meeting abstracts (.pdf)
• View TMJ Science, Volume 6, Number 1, November 2011 (.pdf)

To receive a hard copy of TMJ Science, please indicate the journal(s) you'd like to receive and send your request to info@tmj.org.

Comments from the Scientific Meetings

Over the course of these Scientific Meetings, we have received many positive comments from the members of the medical community who have attended. To gain more insight in what happens at these gatherings, read on:

"Thanks for the fantastic meeting. I have been going to TMD and pain meetings for over 20 years and this was one of the best that I have ever attended. The idea of bringing together all the experts and patient advocates for all the comorbidities was a great idea. We all need to get together and find those common purposes. The meeting truly reflected what I see as a clinician and what the vast majority of our patients report. Thanks for all your hard work. It is obvious that you are accomplishing things that could not be done without your efforts! There are a lot of providers and patients who will benefit from what you are doing."

~Morris A. Branch, D.D.S., M.S., Bethesda, MD

"I wanted to congratulate you on superb conference (5th Science Meeting)! Definitely one of the best interdisciplinary gatherings I can remember! I hope that an NIH Road Map Initiative will come out of this."

~Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Director, Center for Neurobiology of Stress - Division of Digestive Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles

"The TMJ Association has once again distinguished itself by sponsoring it's fourth scientific meeting...the Association is to be congratulated for its innovation and creativity..."

~Lawrence Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research