The William Houston Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 2005

Abstract

This paper describes the orthodontic treatment of two cases that were presented by the winner of the William Houston Medal at the Membership in Orthodontics examination of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh in 2005. The first case presentation is a Class II division 1 malocclusion treated by a combination of functional appliance and fixed appliance treatment and the second case presentation is a Class III malocclusion treated by a combination of fixed appliance treatment and orthognathic surgery.

Keywords:

• Clinical case report
• William Houston Medal
• orthognathic surgery
• maxillary surgical expansion
• functional appliance

Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank all of the Consultants and staff at Glasgow Dental Hospital and Ayr District General Hospital for the excellent clinical and academic teaching he received. The author would particularly like to thank Mr Philip Benington and Dr Bridget Doubleday for supervising the cases and Professor Ashraf Ayoub who performed the orthognathic surgery.