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Letter to the Editor

¹ Chairman of the Intercollegiate MOrth panel and member of the Board of the Intercollegiate Membership in Orthodontics
² Chairman of the Board of the Intercollegiate Membership in Orthodontics

Dear Sir,

We would like to express our concern over the guest Editorial, which appeared in the December 2002 edition of the Journal of Orthodontics.

We feel that this editorial should have made it clear that these views were those solely of the author, and do not necessarily represent those of the author’s co-examiners nor, indeed, those of the governing body for which the author is a representative as an examiner. We are concerned that, as a result, candidates could be misled into thinking that a Royal London Hospital Space Analysis is a requirement of the Intercollegiate Membership in Orthodontics.

We would like to reassure trainees and their trainers that future candidates will not be penalized if they choose not to undertake the analysis, in the same way that examiners are not prescriptive as to which particular cephalometric analysis is performed. We are sure the author did not intend to suggest personal bias with regard to a candidate’s examination approach.

The merits or otherwise of the Royal London Space Analysis is a separate issue, which could perhaps be discussed at greater length in another forum. We wish, at this juncture, to reassure our trainees.

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