Scottish Dental Show speaker wins award for his outstanding contribution to orthodontics
James Green is Maxillofacial and Dental Laboratory Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
James Green, Maxillofacial and Dental Laboratory Manager at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and a regular speaker at the Scottish Dental Show, is the winner of the British Orthodontic Society (BOS) Award to an Orthodontic Technician for Distinguished Service 2024.
The award, which recognises orthodontic technicians who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession and orthodontics, was presented by Professor Tony Ireland, honorary patron of the BOS, at the recently held British Orthodontic Conference.
James trained at Barts and the London, Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. Following a further year at the Royal London Hospital, he joined the Eastman Dental Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. In 2002, James was the recipient of the other British Orthodontic Society award for dental technicians, the British Orthodontic Society Technicians Award, and is the first to have received both awards.
For the past 20 years, James has been based at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. During this time, he has delivered 50 invited lectures, both nationally and internationally, on topics such as orthodontic appliance design, orthognathic surgery planning and medical device regulations.
He has collaborated on numerous research projects, the results of which have been presented at national and international meetings, including the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland Annual Scientific Conference, the European Craniofacial Congress, and the International Congress on Cleft Palate and Related Craniofacial Anomalies and published in The Angle Orthodontist and The Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal.
James developed the auricular splint, a custom-made medical device that maintains projection and dimensions following auricular reconstruction (which was published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery) and a new obturator prosthesis for children with teeth that cannot accommodate clasps due to insufficient eruption (published in the Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry). He has also written numerous articles for the British Dental Journal and BDJ Team.
James is a longstanding Orthodontic Technicians Association council member, serving as Treasurer between 2007 and 2016 and Secretary since 2018. He also served as a member of the Dental Technologists Association council, where he served as Deputy President (2014 to 2016) and President (2016 to 2018).