Dear patient or lay-person searching this news group for answers to TMJ Pain
and disorder questions. Also, any dental professional seeking a discussion
forum regarding TM problems.

As you no doubt have already noticed, this site has been rather empty.
(Unless you count Dr. Eichen) For years, the dentists who have participated
on this news group have made
themselves available to answer questions.  Unfortunately, a group of trolls
have chosen to flood this group and the Sc.Med.Dentistry Newsgroup with
attacks against science and proven methods of legitimate dental care.
Finally, this group of dentists and ancillary personnel, have chosen to
simply go away.  The down side of this is that a lot of good people are left
with their legitimate questions and concerns un-answered.

As a group, we [the regular posters from this news group] have been
discussing how to fill the void left by the absence of virtually all dental
professionals from these two news groups.  After thorough discussion, we
have
chosen to open a separate internet forum for people to ask questions, debate
dental science, review techniques, learn about regulatory issues, etc.

We have created this forum at:      www.scimeddentistry.com/smd

We welcome anyone to come to this site and discuss dental topics and
concerns.  To avoid flame wars and abuse to anyone posting to the site,
there is a group of moderators on the site who will remove any poster who is
rude, abusive, vulgar, or posts unwanted advertisements for other sites.
Spam will not be tolerated, nor will any Troll-type behavior.

Participating in the site requires a valid email address.  There is a log-in
process where you register and receive a confirmation email back prior to
gaining access to the site.  This is only to enable us to eliminate those
posters who are abusive to the group.  No information about any poster is
collected, no information is being sold or distributed to others.  A cookie
is utilized only to enable the registration process and subsequent log-ins.

Since the site is still getting started, be patient if it takes a few
hours (or more) to get replies to your questions.  Please understand that
the regulars who volunteer to be available at this site do so as volunteers
only.  We receive no compensation beyond the opportunity to discuss our
favorite topics with interested people.  No one is getting paid to be there,
and we all have lives outside of the internet.  Although at times, that may
seem hard to believe.

Please register on the site, obtain your email confirmation, and initiate or
join in on some discussion.

Sincerely,

Amatus Cremona