Prof Andrzej Brudnicki is a paediatric maxillofacial surgeon. He is responsible for the long-term evaluation of treatment results at the Clinic of Paediatric Surgery at the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw, where he is an assistant professor at the Maxillofacial Surgery Unit. The Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw is the largest cleft centre in Europe, carrying out approximately 1,000 cleft operations per year. Prof Brudnicki received his PhD in early secondary alveolar bone grafting in 2014. His research interest and expertise in paediatric maxillofacial surgery focuses on developmental disorders of the facial skull and defects of the maxillofacial cleft.