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Why write?
Editorial
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Why write?
A
t a time when professional publications are landing on our desks and in our libraries like locusts on the meagre African crops, less dangerous though they may be, one might well ask why one should want to add another one to the pile. Why did Monique Brion, Marc Danan and myself, assisted by 18 young colleagues of both sexes, launch obliviously into that perilous undertaking known as writing?1 Why did we accept to undertake two long years of intense personal labour, the diligent team work, the numerous tedious bibliographical searches, the methodical iconography gathering (slides have a natural tendency to become dispersed), the clumsy first drafts, corrections, redrafting, recorrections, not to mention the occasional heated exchange of words, all, of course, under the constant and combined pressure of publisher, patients and families who simply refused to go away? There are doubtless many reasons. I will simply mention three. All professionals, of course, feel the urge to hand on their experience. The memories of the difficulties encountered during our training, the diversity and the randomly scattered places of learning, like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, the beginner’s mistakes that we made, all lead us to attempt to spare our students those same moments of misery. That’s why this book spans a broad spectrum of theory illustrated by numerous clinical cases. Another more technical reason is our attempt to convince those fellow orthodontists and periodontists who are interested in the subject that orthodontic treatment, when well-managed – smoothly and with both tact and a delicate touch – will not exacerbate the periodontal condition of already afflicted patients. On the contrary, therapy can only bring improvement. But I think above all that this book is the logical outcome of a multidisciplinary experiment begun many moons ago back in the sixties, by Madame Chaput and Paul Brender at Tenon Hospital, in Paris. It’s thanks to them that we met and that we got into the habit of working together. And it was also under their guidance that we chose our line of conduct combining rigor, caution and humility. Since then, we have each gone on to practise in our various directions but always in close collaboration. Over the past thirty years, we have treated many cases; we have had our share of successes and our failures too. But we have moved forward together, honed our techniques and, of course, accumulated mounds of archives. These archives were the sources from which we culled examples that we are proud to submit, in memory of our masters.
Françoise FONTANEL [email protected] 1
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Parodontites sévères et Orthodontie by Marc Danan, Françoise Fontanel and Monique Brion, Editions CdP.
International Orthodontics 2006 ; 4 : 108
© CEO, Paris, 2006 Tous droits réservés/All rights reserved
Why write?
A
t a time when professional publications are landing on our desks and in our libraries like locusts on the meagre African crops, less dangerous though they may be, one might well ask why one should want to add another one to the pile. Why did Monique Brion, Marc Danan and myself, assisted by 18 young colleagues of both sexes, launch obliviously into that perilous undertaking known as writing?1 Why did we accept to undertake two long years of intense personal labour, the diligent team work, the numerous tedious bibliographical searches, the methodical iconography gathering (slides have a natural tendency to become dispersed), the clumsy first drafts, corrections, redrafting, recorrections, not to mention the occasional heated exchange of words, all, of course, under the constant and combined pressure of publisher, patients and families who simply refused to go away? There are doubtless many reasons. I will simply mention three. All professionals, of course, feel the urge to hand on their experience. The memories of the difficulties encountered during our training, the diversity and the randomly scattered places of learning, like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, the beginner’s mistakes that we made, all lead us to attempt to spare our students those same moments of misery. That’s why this book spans a broad spectrum of theory illustrated by numerous clinical cases. Another more technical reason is our attempt to convince those fellow orthodontists and periodontists who are interested in the subject that orthodontic treatment, when well-managed – smoothly and with both tact and a delicate touch – will not exacerbate the periodontal condition of already afflicted patients. On the contrary, therapy can only bring improvement. But I think above all that this book is the logical outcome of a multidisciplinary experiment begun many moons ago back in the sixties, by Madame Chaput and Paul Brender at Tenon Hospital, in Paris. It’s thanks to them that we met and that we got into the habit of working together. And it was also under their guidance that we chose our line of conduct combining rigor, caution and humility. Since then, we have each gone on to practise in our various directions but always in close collaboration. Over the past thirty years, we have treated many cases; we have had our share of successes and our failures too. But we have moved forward together, honed our techniques and, of course, accumulated mounds of archives. These archives were the sources from which we culled examples that we are proud to submit, in memory of our masters.
Françoise FONTANEL [email protected] 1
108
Parodontites sévères et Orthodontie by Marc Danan, Françoise Fontanel and Monique Brion, Editions CdP.
International Orthodontics 2006 ; 4 : 108