The 'Asian Academy for Temporomandibular Joint' has been established where Chinese, Japanese and Korean representatives have gathered in Korea's Seoul Hyatt Hotel on September 18th 2009. Before this establishment, in Osaka Japan on July 26th 2008, the Japanese Society for TMJ and the Korean Association for TMJ Corporation had set up a sisterhood relationship.

Also, on September 27th 2008 at Seoul Olympic Park Hotel, China's Chinese Society of Temporomandibular Disorders and Occlusion and the Korea's Corporation 'Korean Association for TMJ Coporation' had set up a sisterhood relationship as well.

For the encouragement of each country's studies about tempromandibular joint and dental part through sharing each country's tempromandibular joint information and people such as man power, the 'Asian Academy for Temporomandibular Joint' has agreed as following statement with China's Xu-chen Ma, Japan's Kenji kakudo and Korea's Hoon Chung president.

• Every two years, each of the following countries will take turns hosting an academic seminar: Korea, China and Japan. The second academic seminar will be held in Japan and the third academic seminar will be held in China.
• Two members of the Organizing Committee will be recommended from each of the following countries: Korea, China and Japan.
• We will prepare any project that can potentially draw the participation of other countries or areas in Asia.
• Chung Hoon from Korea will be the Executive director temporarily.

From now, we hope that many Asian countries join the 'Asian Academy for Temporomandibular Joint' and contribute to each country's development of tempromandibular joint studies and share friendly people of Asian. We look forward to many Asian countries participating in the 'Asian Academy for Temporomandibular Joint'.

Thank you very much.