back to contentsClinical conference on temporomandibular joint disorders using WWW (World-Wide Web)
Tsutomu Nomura, Kazuhiro Yamada,1) takafumi Hayashi,2) Syuichi Nomura,3) Ritsuo Takagi,4) Masahiro Suzuki,5) Hiroyuki Yamada,6) Masayoshi Fukushima,7), Hideaki Tai,8) Hiroshi Taguchi9)
First Department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery (Chief: Prof. Tamio Nakajima)
1)Department of Orthodontics (Chief: Prof. Kohji Hanada)
2)Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (Chief: Jusuke Ito)
3)Division of Polyclinic Intensive Oral Care Unit (Director: Prof. Shoji Kohno)
4)Second Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry (Chief: Prof. Yasushi Ohashi)
5)First Department of Prosthesic Dentistry (Chief: Shoji Kohno)
6)Second Department of Prosthesic Dentistry (Chief: Haruka Kusakari)
7)Department of Operative Dentistry and endodontics (Chief. Prof. Masaaki Iwaku)
8)Department of Periodontics (Chief: Prof. Kohji Hara)
9)Department of Pedodontics (Chief: Prof. Tadashi Noda)
Abstract:
@In our hospital, a working division of temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) consisting of 12 members of 12 departments was established in 1993 to treat the disorders by a team approach. Clinical conferences are being held once in a month to discuss the diagnosis and treatment of patients with TMD who need a multidisciplinary approach. A home page on TMD was open in WWW (World-Wide Web) to display them and to make them accessible from the members of the team as well as other doctors outside the hospital. The contents include chief complaints, clinical history, present status, radiographic, CT and MRI images, treatment history and problems in each year. each case is discussed in amiling list or in conference corner in WWW. So far, 25 cases discussed in 17 conferences were displayed in WWW. The system seems to be quite effective in establishing the treatment of TMD because information on each case is available anytime to anyone involved in the study and treatment of TMD.