Life and Education - Attended Royal Dental Hospital in 1934 - Studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and graduated in 1940 - Became an orthodontist in Middlesex County in 1940 - Joined the Institute of Dental Surgery at the Eastman Dental Hospital as Head of the Orthodontic Department in 1948

Ballard Conversion Tracing - Described a method for studying jaw relationship in the Antero-Posterior direction in 1951 - Used the axial inclination of incisor teeth to study the relationship - Removed influence of soft tissues and dental compensation - Permitted adjustment to the inclination of maxillary and mandibular incisors to their normal value - Used incisor overjet as an indicator of the relative position of the maxilla to the mandible

Recognition - Served as President of BSSO in 1957 - Received the Colyer Gold Medal from the Royal Dental Surgeon - Recognised as a key figure in the history of orthodontics by the British Orthodontic Society

References - Obituary: Professor Clifford Ballard (1997-07-24) - Phulari, Basavaraj Subhashchandra. History of Orthodontics (2013-06-30) - British Orthodontic Society Museum and Archive: History of Orthodontics - Key Figures - Clifford Ballard - Cobourne, Martyn T.; DiBiase, Andrew T. Handbook of Orthodontics (2015-10-02) - Naini, Farhad B. Facial Aesthetics: Concepts and Clinical Diagnosis (2011-01-14)