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Miss Christine Casey, BDS, MFDS RCS (Eng), MSc, MOrth RCS (Eng), FDSOrth RCS (Eng), FDSOrth RCS (Ed), CILT

Christine

Consultant Orthodontist / Honorary Clinical Lecturer

Email: christine.casey@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Miss Casey qualified as a dentist from Guy's, Kings and St Thomas' Dental Hospital in 2004 and went on to undertake various senior house officer jobs across England in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Paediatric Dentistry. She obtained her Membership of the Faculty of Dental Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2006. 

Miss Casey went on to complete a three-year full-time specialist orthodontic training programme at the Eastman Dental Hospital commencing in 2008. During this period, she obtained a Master of Science degree in Orthodontics from the University of London in 2010 and subsequently went on to complete her Membership in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2011. 

She completed her senior registrar training at the Royal London Dental Hospital achieving her Fellowship in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Edinburgh in 2013 and commencing her consultant post in 2014. 

She is involved in teaching undergraduate dental students and postgraduate students in Orthodontics. This includes senior registrars training to become hospital consultants and she is a clinical and educational supervisor. She achieved her CILT certificate in 2013. 

As a hospital consultant her special interest includes treating patients with complex malocclusions requiring Orthognathic surgery. She has also been site lead for Orthodontics at Whipps Cross since 2017. 

Miss Casey has published a number of articles and participates in national courses for postgraduate students. She is on the General Dental Council's specialist list and is a member of the British and European Orthodontic Societies. 

Centre: Oral Bioengineering

 

Teaching

Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Orthodontics, QMUL - teaching (4th and 5th year) undergraduate dental students and postgraduate orthodontic students during dedicated clinical teaching clinics, seminars and lectures. 

RCS Examiner, Membership in Orthodontics examination. 

Postgraduate Internal Examiner - DClinDent in Orthodontics, QMUL. 

DClinDent Research Supervisor - ST1-3 Orthodontics. 

HEE Educational Supervisor and Clinical Supervisor in Orthodontics. 

Postgraduate Lecturer on the Greater London Lecture Programme and RLH Orthognathic Course. 

Undergraduate Internal Examiner - BDS, QMUL. 

Personal Tutor for Undergraduate BDS students. 

Research

Research Interests:

Miss Casey's main research interest is in the interface between Orthognathic Surgery and Clinical Psychology and she is currently supervising a DClinDent research project in that field. She successfully bid for funding from NHS England in 2017 to establish the first substantive Clinical Psychology service for Orthognathic patients at the Royal London Dental Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital. This has since been expanded in 2019 to include services for adult patients affected by trauma as well as adult and paediatric patients in other medical/dental specialties at the Royal London Dental Hospital. 

Publications

  1. Casey C, Sharma PK, Ali N, Taylor N, Priestley C, Kingsley M and Royan L. Establishing a clinical psychology team within the orthognathic service: A triad model of orthodontic, maxillofacial and psychological care. J Orthod. 2021; 48 (2): 190-198
  2. Casey C, Gill DS, Jones SP. A comparison of skeletal maturation in patients with hypodontia and unaffected controls assessed by cervical vertebrae maturation (CVM) changes. J Orthod. 2013; 40 (4): 286-298.
  3. Casey C, Brooke T, Davis R, Franklin D. Case report of a family with benign familial neutropenia and the implications for the general dental practitioner. Dent Update. 2011 Mar; 38(2): 106-8, 110.
  4. Casey C, Guest P, Fasanmade A. Foetal anticonvulsant syndrome: implications on dento-facial development in general dental practice. Dent Update. 2010 Sep; 37: 473-477.
  5. Casey C, Harris T, Franklin D. Dental caries and body mass index: are they related? Int J Paediatr Dent. 2008; 18 (1): 12.
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