William Robert Proffit (April 19, 1936 – September 30, 2018) was an American orthodontist. He was made a fellow of the

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in 1966. Proffit led the department of orthodontics at the

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from 1975 to 2001, and became a W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor in 1992. The

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presented Proffit with its inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research in 2017. He taught at UNC until his death in 2018.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Proffit, William 1936 births 2018 deaths American orthodontists Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty 20th-century dentists