FEO award goes to UK journal for third time

For the third year running, a paper published in the UK’s Journal of Orthodontics has won the European Federation of Orthodontics (FEO) Award. This is an accolade given to the authors of the paper judged to be the best of any published in the national journal of a FEO member society in the previous year.

The FEO award was created to recognise a scientific study that has made a significant contribution in research and clinical investigation and has advanced orthodontics. The Editors of the FEO’s national journals choose to put forward the papers which they think most deserve the award.

Dr Friedy Luther Editor, Journal of Orthodontics

Dr Friedy Luther, Editor of the British Orthodontic Society’s Journal of Orthodontics, believes in promoting papers which will lead to improvements in patient care. This year Dr Luther put forward two such papers published in the JO.

The paper chosen by the FEO judges reported a study of the reasons why patients decide to have jaw surgery carried out and of their experiences of jaw surgery. The authors are a collaborative team from the Dental Institute and the Clinical Psychology unit at Leeds University. The lead author Jackie Stirling undertook the research as part of her professional training in Clinical Psychology. She was supervised by Hilary Dekker from Clinical Psychology, and Jay Kindelan, David Morris and James Spencer from the Dental Institute. Their prime conclusions were that patients need better information in reaching the decision to proceed, and need more support during treatment.

Journal of Orthodontics