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Nigel Harradine is a Consultant Orthodontist
at Bristol Dental Hospital and School. He is primarily a
clinician whose remit is to treat complex multidisciplinary
cases but he is also very committed to teaching, being in charge
of the highly rated Bristol undergraduate orthodontic program
and he is fully involved in the clinical, academic and research
supervision of the postgraduate orthodontic program.
Particular clinical and research interests
have included:
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The use
of computers for planning and recording the effects of
treatment and for storing digital clinical records. Nigel is
responsible for the OPAL cephalometric and imaging program
which the most popular such program in the UK, with its
proceeds going to the British Orthodontic Society
Foundation. 287 offices and departments run this software
which powerfully facilitates treatment planning, patient
education, clinical audit and research.
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Functional appliances – he was a co-author of the series of
U.K. RCTs in this area and continues to explore better
designs and clinical use of these appliances.
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Self-ligating
brackets. He has published a number of articles and chapters
on this topic
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The
effects and effectiveness of orthognathic surgery
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The
effects of third molar removal. The author of the only
random controlled trial on this topic in the literature
Nigel has published regularly on these and
several other topics.
Nigel has lectured extensively. For example,
since the year 2000 he has given 117 external invited lectures
in the United Kingdom including multiple presentations to the
British Orthodontic Conference and all three British awarded
eponymous orthodontic lectures, the Chapman, the Ballard
Memorial and the Northcroft Memorial lectures and the 2010 Webb
Johnson triennial memorial lecture at the Royal college of
Surgeons of England. Since 2000, he has also delivered 74
invited overseas presentations in France, Holland, Switzerland,
Norway, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Spain, Israel, Jordan, Saudi
Arabia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa, Mexico, Australia,
New Zealand and the U.S.A., where he has given five
presentations to the annual session of the AAO including the
2011 meeting in Chicago.
With David Birnie, Nigel Harradine has
co-presented the annual Excellence in Orthodontics Course in the
UK and overseas for 25 consecutive years since 1987.
Away from the chairside and the podium,
Nigel’s roles have included being the Chairman of a large number
of national orthodontic and dental committees. Nigel was the
founder and the inaugural chairman of the British Orthodontic
Society Foundation which supports research and teaching in
orthodontics. This fund has to date raised over £800,000. In
2004, he was awarded a life membership of the British Society
for his distinguished services to Orthodontics and he is
currently in the middle of a three year term as the Chairman of
the British Orthodontic Society. |
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