Rate My Professor Christopher Robertson

Dr Christopher Robertson is a Senior Professional Practice Fellow in the Department of Oral Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry, at the University of Otago. He holds qualifications of MDS and DDSc, both from the University of Otago. His research summary is listed as dental sleep medicine on the Faculty of Dentistry's staff expertise profile.

In orthodontics and sleep medicine research, Dr Robertson authored the 2003 paper 'Dental and occlusal changes during mandibular advancement splint therapy in sleep-disordered breathing patients,' published in the European Journal of Orthodontics. The study, conducted at the School of Dentistry, University of Otago, analyzed changes via cephalometric radiographs and dental models in patients treated with mandibular advancement splints, in collaboration with Peter Herbison of Preventive and Social Medicine and Michael Harkness. He also published 'Cranial base considerations between apnoeics and non-apnoeics' in 2002 in the Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, examining cephalometric differences affiliated with the Department of Oral Sciences and Orthodontics. Dr Robertson supervised Doctor of Clinical Dentistry theses including 'Eating Fast and Body Mass Index in Young Adolescents. Is there a relationship?' and 'Comparison of Orofacial Characteristics in Children With and Without Obesity,' both archived in the University of Otago's OUR Archive. He collaborates on the SNAP IT Study for obesity research with Department of Oral Sciences colleagues and contributed to a 2020 University of Otago study finding overweight teenagers chew slower, linking chewing pace to obesity risk, alongside experts from Oral Sciences, Human Nutrition, and Paediatric Sleep Health. Dr Robertson is included in the Craniofacial Research Programme's key personnel at the Sir John Walsh Research Institute, listed in research reports and highlights from 2015 to 2020.