June 10 –14, 2009, Finlandia Hall, Helsinki, Finland
Sven Kreiborg
Normal and abnormal craniofacial development
Abstract
Clinical research within the area of ”Normal and Abnormal Craniofacial Development” has had a very high priority at School of Dentistry in Copenhagen for more than 50 years. The research was initiated in the early 1950s by Professor Arne Björk who developed the roentgencephalometric “implant technique”. Since those 2D days Copenhagen has been at the forefront of 2½D and now 3D craniofacial images. In 1994, the 3D Craniofacial Image Research Laboratory was established at the School of Dentistry in Copenhagen in collaboration with Copenhagen University Hospital and the Technical University of Denmark, and its research topics include normal and abnormal craniofacial development based on different scanning techniques. This lecture will cover the research developments with relation to the study of craniofacial morphogenesis during the last 35 years at School of Dentistry in Copenhagen, but it will primarily focus on the knowledge gained from recent 3D-studies, including the development of new techniques for superimpositioning of longitudinal data obtained for the study of craniofacial growth and development.