Background
Burstone, Charles was born on April 4, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Lester and Rose Burstone.
Burstone, Charles was born on April 4, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Lester and Rose Burstone.
Doctor of Medical Dentistry, Washington U, St. Louis, 1950. Master of Science, Washington U, St. Louis, 1950.
He was well known for co-development of new orthodontic material such as beta titanium, nickel titanium, and long fiber-reinforced composite. He has written more than 200 articles in scientific field Doctor Burstone was chairman of Indiana School of Orthodontics in 1961.
In 1970, he created Orthodontic Department at University of Connecticut.
He was the head of the department from 1970 to 1992. Eventually in 1994, he was appointed Professor Emeritus in the Orthodontic Department.
He eventually retired and spent his time at Uconn Health Center. Doctor Burstone published his first paper in 1959 in Journal of Dental Research.
Burstone and Legan in their 1980 paper proposed a constructed horizontal line.
This line is drawn through nasion at an angle of 7 degrees to the SN line. They developed this line because of reliability issues with the SN line when one can easily place the Sella Point up/down which can change the cephalometric measurements. This line tends to be parallel to the true horizontal line.
Doctor Burstone also formulated B line which is a line constructed from soft tissue Subnasale to Soft Tissue Pogonion.
Doctor Burstone also developed COGS (Cephalometrics for Orthognathic Surgery) Analysis for patients requiring orthognathic surgery. He died at the age of 86 in Seoul, South of Korea.
1956 - AAO Research Essay Award.
Member of AAO.