title: Letters after your name--in what order should they be placed and why? Education.
abstract: Many clinicians are uncertain about the correct place of letters after their names and are unaware that there is a strict hierarchical order in which they should be placed. The aim of this paper is to give the correct order of such letters.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Cosham, Portsmouth PO6 3LY, UK. NeilMackenzie3@aol.com
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mackenzie
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Brennan
mesh_terms: D000004:Abbreviations as Topic; D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003406:Credentialing / Q000145:classification*; D004517:Education, Professional / Q000145:classification; D004522:Educational Status; D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel / Q000145:classification / Q000193:education; D006113:United Kingdom