Thomas Klit Pedersen DDS, PhD

Thomas Klit Pedersen, DDS, is a clinical professor and consultant orthodontist in the field of growth-conditioned deformities of the jaws at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital and Section of Orthodontics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark. He is responsible for the Clinic for Dentofacial Anomalies managing patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) and similar temporomandibular joint (TMJ) conditions. He finished his orthodontic training in 1991 and completed his Ph.D. on the treatment of patients with JIA in 1996.

His research interests are TMJ arthritis and pathology and its consequences for craniomandibular growth, treatment of these conditions, cytokine levels in the TMJ, effect of inflammatory modifying drug injections, distraction osteogenesis, orthognathic surgical procedures i.e. surgery first, orthopaedic and surgical treatment of dentofacial anomalies and cleft lip and palate, the use of skeletal anchorage and virtual surgical planning. He is a clinical instructor in postgraduate education, mainly on orthognathic surgical patients and patients with orofacial issues.