A 10-year retrospective audit of consecutively completed orthodontic treatments in a general dental practice and a hospital orthodontic department.

During 1993 and 1994, the author took part in the South West Orthodontic Clinical Assistant Training Programme and worked as a part-time Clinical Assistant in the Orthodontic Department of the Royal United Hospital, Bath. Following the clinical assistantship the author continued to treat patients in the hospital department but under a General Dental Services contract number. This paper is a personal clinical audit of all the orthodontic cases completed within the GDS by the author since 1990, both in general practice in Westbury, Wiltshire and at the Royal United Hospital (RUH), Bath. The aim of the audit was to evaluate the effectiveness of orthodontic treatment carried out by the author, both in general dental practice and in a hospital orthodontic department, and to compare treatment outcomes with other published results.