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Your healthcare team
Your healthcare team
A healthcare team experienced in temporomandibular joint problems should decide which patients should be offered this procedure. This procedure should only be done by surgeons with specific training and experience in total prosthetic replacement of the temporomandibular joint.
NICE is asking health professionals to send information about everyone who has the procedure and what happens to them afterwards to a database at the British Association of TMJ Surgeons. This is so that the safety of the procedure and how well it works can be checked over time. Your health professional should ask you if details of your procedure can be collected.