Friday, November 26
03:45 p.m. – 05:15 p.m.

Dr. Monica Palmer, B.D.S., F.D.S.(R.C.S.Edinburgh), D.D.O. (R.C.P.S. Glasgow)

The State Of Our Art

This presentation is a very personal one, which I gave as my farewell lecture to the Orthodontic Society of Berlin and Brandenburg and I am honoured to be asked to repeat at the IOS in Prague
2010.

The fine art of orthodontics and the art of seeing both have a pivotal role to play in an age of important scientific and technological advances in orthodontics. We need to know, where to place the jaws and the teeth of any individual within the face to provide excellence in aesthetics and function. In the presentation I will discuss my life as an orthodontist and a painter and how these two creative aesthetic disciplines supplement each other. I will also talk about beauty and truth, limitations and frustrations and the search for excellence in our profession – illustrated by my orthodontic patients as well as with my own paintings.

Dr. Monica Palmer received her dental and orthodontic postgraduate education in England and later in Toronto, Canada. Her early career was within the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where her main interest was in interdisciplinary treatment. She obtained her Fellowship in Dental surgery. As a consultant orthodontist she was responsible for the postgraduate orthodontic programme. Since 1980, in private practice in Berlin, she enjoyed the close cooperation with maxillofacial surgeons of the city.

Her main interests are adult interdisciplinary treatment especially the role of aesthetics and harmony, modern imaging techniques to aid diagnosis, treatment planning and treatment evaluation in combined orthodontic surgical cases. She had been invited as keynote speaker on these and other subjects to many international meetings, is an active member of the Angle Society of Europe and served as a member of the Scientific Committee (1994-1998) as chairperson 1998 and as president of the society 2006- -2008. She is a member of the European Association of Orthodontists and international member of the AAO.

Dr. Palmer is also an artist and interested in the theories of colour, balance, harmony and Aesthetics and their role in art and in orthodontics.

E-mail: meportho@t-online.de