Activities of International Scientific Organizations that are closely related to Japanese Society of Orofacial Pain

Abstract

There are several international scientific organizations that work on orofacial pain. Some are societies and some are groups formed in a society. These organizations have functionally cooperated and played important roles. Japanese Society of Orofacial Pain（JSOP）is closely associated with these organizations. International Association for the Study of Pain（IASP）is the largest and the oldest scientific society that deals with pain medicine. Significant Interest Group（SIG）on Orofacial Pain is a specific group consisted of researchers who are members of IASP and are interested in orofacial pain. International Association for Dental Research（IADR）Neuroscience Group（NeuG）is a group of dental researchers who are members of IADR and has formed the Research Diagnostic Criteria of Temporomanidibular Disorders Consortium（RDC/TMD consortium）with a collaboration of the SIG on Orofacial Pain. RDC/TMD consortium has published the Diagnostic Criteria of Temporomandibular Disorders（DC/TMD）in 2014, which is currently the standard of diagnosis of TMD. American Association of Orofacial Pain（AAOP）and Asian Academy of Craniomandibular Disorders（AACMD）constitute International Congress on Orofacial Pain and Temporonadibular Disorders（ICOT）with another sister academies. Scientific meetings of IASP and AACMD are simultaneously scheduled to be held in 2016 in Yokohama and the members of JSOP are strongly recommended to attend these meetings held in Japan to learn about both basic and up-to-date clinical topics of orofacial pain.（223 words）