INTERNAT. CONSORTIUM FOR RESEARCH ON TMJ DISORDERS

这是对RFA DE-99 - 002-International的回应 口腔健康研究计划合作补助金。这是一个为期两年的规划， 一个长期目标是进行多国研究的项目 颞下颌关节紊乱病的病因、预防和治疗。 为此，建议成立一个国际财团，设在 华盛顿大学一直是开发标准化 检查和诊断方法，包括研究诊断 TMD标准（RDC/TMD），所有这些标准将提供给联合体 这将构成拟议规划工作的核心组成部分。 这项为期两年的规划补助金的具体目的如下： 在规划过程结束时， 多国临床中心联盟，有能力开展 在国际一级进行跨学科的方案研究， TMD的病因，预防和管理; 2）在结束之前建立， 在计划阶段，每个临床中心的可靠RDC/TMD检查员， 联合体，并经联合体协商一致，对 RDC/TMD; 3）利用现有的电子和网络技术， 联营体场址的电子数据收集和传送能力 科学数据和文献的交流和管理 数据库;以及4）提交至少两个跨国， 在规划阶段结束时提出跨学科研究建议。一个试点 电子网络，作为拟议的电子 通信和联网的目的，使联合会成员能够接受调查， 提供反馈，接收并返回适当的表格等，及时地 准备这项资助申请。参与的个人和 机构：1）包括该领域一些最杰出的工作者; 2） 在各自的母语中使用RDC/TMD; 3）渴望形成这样的 一个财团，包括口面疼痛和TMD诊所主任在 澳大利亚悉尼大学;芬兰赫尔辛基大学;德国哈勒-莱比锡大学; 特拉维夫，以色列;新加坡，新加坡;口腔康复中心，林克平， 在美国，财团参与者包括 纽约州立大学的布法罗、密歇根、明尼苏达和华盛顿等大学。未来 我们的目标将是扩大联盟的领域，包括所有急性和慢性 对牙科有重要意义的牙齿和口面疼痛状况。

This is an application in response to RFA DE-99-002-International Collaborative Oral Health Research Planning Grant. It is a two-year planning project which has its long term goal the conduct of multi-national research into the etiology, prevention, and management of temporomandibular disorders. An international consortium for this purpose is proposed, housed at the University of Washington, which has been the center for developing standardized examination and diagnostic approaches, including the Research Diagnostic Criteria for TMD (RDC/TMD), all of which will be available to the consortium and which will constitute a central component of the proposed planning effort. The specific aims of this two-year planning grant are the following: 1) to establish and leave in place at the end of the planning process a working consortium of multi-national clinical centers having the capability to conduct programmatic, interdisciplinary research on an international level into the etiology, prevention, and management of TMD; 2) to establish, prior to the end of the planning phase, reliable RDC/TMD examiners at each clinical center of the consortium, and by consensus of the consortium make modifications to the RDC/TMD; 3) use available electronic and networking technology to establish electronic data collection and transmission capabilities at consortium sites for communicating and for management of scientific data and literature databases; and 4) to submit for funding at least two multi-national, interdisciplinary research proposals by the end of the planning phase. A pilot electronic network, serving as prototypical for proposed electronic communications and networking aims, allowed consortium members to be surveyed, provide feedback, receive and return appropriate forms, etc., in timely fashion for preparation of this grant application. The participating individuals and institutions: 1) include some of the most pre-eminent workers in the field; 2) use the RDC/TMD in their respective native languages; 3) are eager to form such a consortium that includes orofacial pain and TMD clinic directors at the Universities of Sydney, Australia; Helsinki, Finland; Halle-Leipsig, Germany; Tel Aviv, Israel; Singapore, Singapore; Oral Rehabilitation Center, Link'ping, Sweden; and in the United States, the consortium participants include the universities of SUNY at Buffalo, Michigan, Minnesota, and Washington. A future goal will be to extend the consortium's domain to include all acute and chronic dental and orofacial pain conditions of significance to dentistry.