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The gold medal of the conjoint m. Orth. Examination of the royal college of surgeons of edinburgh and the college of dental surgeons of Hong Kong, surgical orthodontic cases.

Wong RW, Shum LM, Hägg U

2/F, Orthodontics, Prince Philip Dental Hospital, 34 Hospital Road, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong. fyoung@hkucc.hku.hk.

The Conjoint Gold Medal was awarded to the candidate who scored the highest overall mark in Part II of the Membership of Orthodontics examination held by the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the College of Dental Surgeons of Hong Kong. It is the intermediate examination for the orthodontic specialty training pathway in Hong Kong. Part of this examination involved the presentation of a fully documented fixed appliance case and a multidisciplinary case, and three other cases with condensed case histories. This article described two surgical orthodontic cases presented during the 1999 and 2002 examinations by the award winners.

Published 23 August 2006 in J Orthod, 33(3): 172-84.
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