Birdsall Holly Broadbent Jr. (September 27, 1928 in

Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Located along the southern shore of Lake Erie, it is situated across the Canada–United States border, Canada–U.S. maritime border ...

– July 9, 2009 in

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) was an American orthodontist known for this contributions to the field of

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. He co-developed the

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Standards along with his grandfather Birdsall Holly II. The work is based on the Broadbent-Bolton Growth study, which the

American Association of Orthodontists Founded in 1900, the American Association of Orthodontists (AAO) is the world's oldest and largest dental specialty organization. It represents nearly 19,000 orthodontist members throughout the United States, Canada and abroad. All orthodontists are ...

Foundation has called "the most complete human

craniofacial Craniofacial surgery is a surgical subspecialty that deals with congenital and acquired deformities of the head, skull, face, neck, jaws and associated structures. Although craniofacial treatment often involves manipulation of bone, craniofacial ...

growth study in the world".

Life

Broadbent was born in

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. He was son of Ebert B. Broadbent Sr. and great-grandson of Birdsall Holly, a leading inventor in the nineteenth century. He attended St. Andrew's School (Delaware) after which he received his Bachelor's from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

and Dental Degree from the

Yale School of Medicine The Yale School of Medicine is the medical school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813. It is the sixth-oldest m ...

. He married his wife Jacqueline Harriman Fisk (1937-), the granddaughter of

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, in 1957 and they had two daughters, Meredith Broadbent (who become commissioner at the US International Trade Commission in 2012) and Elizabeth Parsons Broadbent (Becke). After graduation from dental school, Broadbent joined his grandfather's practice as an apprentice in a

downtown Cleveland Downtown Cleveland is the central business district of Cleveland, Ohio, United States. The economic and cultural center of the city and the Cleveland metropolitan area, it is Cleveland's oldest district, with its Public Square, Cleveland, Publi ...

office located in the

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. He was the member of the

Case Western Reserve Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) is a private research university in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1967 by a merger between Western Reserve University and the Case Institute of Technology. Case Western Reserve Univ ...

faculty for around 50 years. With him and his father's collaboration, the Bolton-Brush Growth Study Center was established at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine whom he served as the director of until his death. Broadbent is credited with creating the Bolton Standards in 1975 (with William Golden) based on X-rays of 16 boys and 16 girls from ages 1 to 18. His other contributions to the understanding of craniofacial growth include contributing factors to

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, and the development of the

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. In 1999, the American Association of Orthodontists Foundation issued the GAC International Corporate Center Award to Broadbent to index and preserve records from the Bolton-Brush and Broadbent-Bolton growth studies. He was the 2005 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year for the Case School of Dental Medicine. Broadbent died in 2009 at the age of 80 in

Positions held

* Cleveland's Health Museum, President * Cleveland Dental Society, President * Great Lakes Society of Orthodontists, President * American Association of Orthodontists, Vice-President

External links

Bolton-Brush Growth Study Center

References

Case Western Reserve University faculty 1928 births 2009 deaths 20th-century American dentists Princeton University alumni Yale School of Medicine alumni American orthodontists {{US-med-bio-stub