Dear colleagues and friends,
Two major events in the second half of 2025.
First, a sad note: our first Honorary President and founder of the Ricketts Society, Carl Gugino, passed away in his 96th year, after a long and intense life. We were able to benefit from his teaching for more than 40 years, and we look back on his life in this issue. We hope to pay tribute to him in person; for those who knew him, as a prelude to our next congress.
The second event was our Colmar congress, perfectly organized by the “East Sisters”: Mireille Biegel, Laure Damery, Gaëlle Harter and Sophie Laquille. I must admit that the announcement of the theme at the Rennes congress made me a little apprehensive, fearing a topic that might be insufficiently orthodontic. Well, some were wrong: THOSE WHO DID NOT COME! We learned a lot of things—relevant in our practices and in our everyday lives. The subject was innovative, original and risky; it was a truly enriching congress from every standpoint, with exciting speakers—so a big congratulations to them, and to the SBR East for taking that risk and delivering a high-level congress.
It’s impossible to escape all these endocrine disruptors, but let’s focus on a few actions to improve our lives and those of our patients. For example: plant a tree at the start of each treatment, or ask our patients to bring back aligners after use (they are contaminated waste); filtered tap water is better than plastic-bottled water; plastic packaging is not the best for our food; a fixed appliance bonding releases toxic products found in saliva during the 24 hours following bonding, and many other small things too: small streams make great rivers.
Not forgetting the 2025 Olympic Games, which brought together more than 2,000 practitioners and where the SBR, as always, took part through sessions organized with Cepog and SFODF.
We continue presenting clinical cases beyond borders. After our international issue last June, a Vietnamese practitioner is publishing a case in our journal. He tells us a little about his training, orthodontics in his country, and his way of practicing. Why not, one day, a trip there?
The Julien Philippe Prize is also in the spotlight, with the publication of the winning dissertation and posters from the three awarded dissertations.
Let’s talk about the future, too!
The interfaculties week will take place in late April in Strasbourg, and the SBR will supervise the second-year residents. Our regional meetings will be held throughout the first half of 2026 (program in this issue).
Things are already well underway: we’ll meet in Barcelona on 2, 3 and 4 October 2026 for our annual congress: “Orthodontics and Surgery: the new deal”. The South-West office, with the congress scientific chair Maxime Rotenberg, is getting us across the Pyrenees: Barcelona is easy to reach, the scheduled speakers are well-known and international (French, Japanese, Vietnamese and, of course, Spanish). So, publish “ortho-surg” cases in the June 2026 journal!
Registration opens in early January 2026.
It’s also time to wish you an excellent year 2026, hoping to see many of you in Barcelona and at our regional meetings. Taking part in the life of the SBR is the best way to make it thrive and grow. Everyone on the boards works hard, and the success of these gatherings is their greatest satisfaction.
Bioprogressively yours,
it’s Catalan!
Patrick Guézénec
President of the SBR
Dear Friends,
This first half of 2025 has been marked by our many regional meetings, reflecting the vitality of our Society.
In April, interfaculties week—which took place in Bordeaux—brought together all the ODF trainees from France. The SBR supervised those in their second year to treat a case on Electrodont, alternating with presentations.
Thank you to Veronika Dercsar (and her dad, Jozsef), Romain Poitel, independent practitioners who set aside time for it; thank you to our academic staff, Delphine Wagner (Strasbourg), Nathalie Foumou-Moretti and Claire Averland-Dubois (Lille), Gauthier Dot (Paris), Maxime Rotenberg (Toulouse), Stéphane Renaudin and Marc-Henri Nivet (Nantes), Damien Brezulier (Rennes), Cédric Bazert (Bordeaux). In short, a very complete team! (our great group photo on the side).
And now, COLMAR!
See you at our annual congress organized by the East region in Colmar, 12, 13 and 14 September, on the theme: “Responsible orthodontics: commitments for tomorrow.”
On entend de plus en plus parler d’ingestion de microplastiques… et si nos aligneurs y contribuaient ?
Le cerveau serait l’organe qui en accumule le plus au cours de la vie… Que faire de nos résines utilisées dans les imprimantes 3D ? Des questions qu’il convient d’étudier, sans pour autant paniquer.
The lectures will surely be fascinating and passionate! But the East board will know how to relax us, no doubt!
Have a great vacation, and see you soon in Alsace.
Dear colleague, dear friends,
The SBR continues to grow and we now have more than 730 members up to date with their dues as of 31 december 2024, including our DESODF trainees and the Japanese members who have joined us.
Si tous les membres étaient à jour de cette cotisation, nous serions presque 900 … avis aux retardataires !
You have just received the latest issue of our journal with clinical content, scientific articles, an interview with Stéphane Barthélémi explaining the conditions required by the qualification committee and the Society’s life. So a very complete issue, which I hope will fascinate you and also take you towards Madagascar, where a group of dental students went to provide care.
The cases presented came from the West—this is a challenge to the other regions! Which one will rise to it?
2025 started at full speed with a regional meeting every month during this first half of the year : a great opportunity in your respective regions to reconnect with your friends and exchange with them.
Not to be forgotten: interfaculties week for our trainees, to be held in early April in Bordeaux.
I still hope to be able to publish a very clinical, international issue of our next journal avec des présentations de cas venant de différents horizons… même s’il est très difficile de rassembler les praticiens contactés but the life of the Society depends on you and on your involvement.
The East region is working hard to prepare for us an original congress in September, in Colmar. You will learn more soon about the scientific program and the activities offered.
The Board renews its best wishes for this new year and you
can count on it to welcome you at all these planned events.
Bioprogressively yours,
Dear colleague, dear friends,
With our congress in Rennes in September and the Orthodontics Days in November in Paris, this year 2024 comes to an end with a rewarding summary.
lots of great photos from Rennes on the bioprog.com website!
A new feature during the Rennes congress: video recording of the lectures, which allowed you to watch them “at your leisure”—an experience to repeat, even if some details need to be improved.
2024 was also an election year. Through an electronic vote, we elected our regional delegates, who then appointed a regional board, and those regional boards chose a National Board. Our national secretary, Hanh Vuong-Pichelin, decided not to stand again. May she find here full recognition from the SBR for all those years spent managing the Society’s administration.
Permettez-moi d’évoquer un souvenir…
In February 2010, I visited Michel Delamaire at the hospital and told him that Hanh was our secretary. He simply gave me a thumbs-up sign to show his approval. Charlotte Eurin will replace her, with Mireille Biegel as deputy (Mireille is likely to be very busy with the congress in Colmar in 2025!)
Éric Allouch was re-elected as Treasurer, and I accepted a second term as President. A number of new members joined the regional boards, bringing fresh momentum and innovative ideas for the future. The electronic vote is an extremely simple procedure; a higher turnout would have been desirable (let’s note that around twenty of our Japanese friends, members of the BSC and therefore of the SBR, voted).
Next elections in September 2027. A new team, with new ideas.
2025 will be a busy year with regional meetings, not to mention an interfac week
for our trainees on 7, 8 and 9 April in Bordeaux, a congress in Colmar (12, 13 and 14 September), without forgetting the Orthodontics Days under the scientific chairmanship of Michel Le Gall (7, 8 and 9 November 2025).
Les projets ne manquent pas, nous avons évoqué un numéro plus international de notre revue, rassemblant des cas traités depuis plusieurs horizons, qui permettrait de confronter nos façons de faire, nos expériences… Et pourquoi ne pas organiser un voyage pour retrouver nos amis Japonais, à mi-chemin entre la France et le Japon. C’était une habitude il y a quelques années, et la convivialité était toujours au rendez-vous.
2024 is ending; i wish you excellent year-end celebrations, and may 2025 bring you
whatever you most want in the Sserenity, the Bkindness and the Rsuccess.
All the best for 2025!
Bioprogressively yours,
Dear colleague, dear friends,
The 21st SBR congress has just come to an end under beautiful Breton sunshine, which has become a most welcome tradition for the SBR.
If I go by the comments we received this week, satisfaction is in order, which does not surprise me given the quality of the speakers.
A very great THANK YOU to our thirteen speakers who presented work of a very high standard and were the architects of this success by bringing their experience and passion. No matter how much effort we put in to organize a wonderful congress, if the scientific quality is not there, the memories will be dull.
Even if the atmosphere is there, even if conviviality overflows, the scientific content is paramount and when all of that is brought together, all we can say is thank you.
Thank you also to all of you, present in large numbers, coming from all over France and abroad (from the United Arab Emirates to Japan), and to our fellow colleagues who had registered to follow the conferences via video link (Japan, USA, United Arab Emirates, DOMTOM). These recordings are a new feature; undoubtedly to be improved, but they are so enriching to watch again at home, at ease, to appreciate the content.
Thank you to Nathalie Hamel for her availability, indispensable for putting such an event in place, to Romy Moison, to Michel Lemonnier for the organization
And finally, a big Thank You to our partners, always there without whom we would not be able to organize this kind of event. They are welcome too, both during our breaks, our meals, our evenings and our raffle!
Our two evenings at the château of Montmuran and at the convent of the Jacobins allowed us to appreciate the convivial and festive atmosphere that prevails among all of us, to the sound of Breton music and the voice of our repeat-offender singer (for those who were in Reims).
All that’s left for us is to climb back down from our Everest (Thank you Nacer for this brilliant lecture) and to prepare ourselves for going to Paris on 7/8/9 November for the Orthodontic Days.
Without forgetting that we’re voting this year too! To renew our regional offices, which will then elect the National Board. Hanh VUONG-PICHELIN a décidé de ne pas se représenter comme secrétaire nationale, poste qu’elle occupait depuis une quinzaine d’années. Nous espérons quand même la revoir lors de prochains congrès pour partager des soirées amicales …
Vote, get involved, come to Paris, and relive the congress thanks to the photos on our website and our next Journal at the end of the year.
Your turn to play in the East, to welcome us the 12th, 13th and 14th of September 2025 in Colmar.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
President of the SBR
Dear fellow practitioner, dear colleagues, dear friends
To start off the year 2024, let me first renew my best wishes to you: much success in your projects, and good health that leaves you with “form memory” to withstand the viruses still going around. We hope that 2024 will be a year full of promise and peace.
The SBR’s projects are the event from the congress in Rennes on the 13/14/15 September next, on the theme of “the vertical dimension, excess and insufficiency”.
We are devoting time to it with the West office, Romy MOISON and Michel LE MONNIER; the scientific program is finalized, as are the festivities, because a congress is also the pleasure of getting together and sharing convivial moments in the midst of our sponsors. We hope to welcome our Japanese friends again this year as they asked that the BSC members (the Japanese SBR) be counted among the SBR.
All this, without forgetting the regional meetings, the inter-faculty week (from 15 to 19 April in Toulouse), our JO (Orthodontic Days in November!) under the chairmanship of Michel LE GALL.
2024 will also be an important year for the SBR because it is an election year: renewal of the various Boards and the National Board.
Get involved in the regions! C’est grâce à de nouveaux membres que la Société vit et se dynamise … les anciens peuvent apporter l’expérience, les jeunes de nouvelles idées et la succession n’en est que plus facile quand une génération se retire. Il est donc important de préparer l’avenir pour que les jeunes ne débarquent pas dans un univers inconnu et qu’ils soient épaulés par les plus anciens .
We are still fine-tuning our journal, our directory, our website, our files. This requires ongoing work, and the work of the Board members, of Nathalie Hamel, of Sandra is important. Let each member contribute en prévenant des modifications d’adresse, de mail … trop de revues reviennent avec la mention « inconnu à l’adresse indiquée ».
As a famous sports journalist used to say: MO-BI-LI-SE- YOURSELF!
Bonne année 2024… rendez vous à RENNES en septembre.
Smile! See you soon in Rennes
A happy president for this success in 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
The year 2023 has been full of events for the SBR, with numerous regional days, but above all a magnificent congress in late September in REIMS to celebrate its 50 years of existence. Thank you to the organizers Jean Michel BONVARLET, Isabelle MARZIN, Hanh VUONG-PICHELIN, Eric ALLOUCH and the entire Ile-de-France regional Board. They set the bar very high in order to celebrate this jubilee properly, and it will be remembered as a success in every respect: both scientific, with a panel of top-level speakers, and festive, in an exceptionally convivial atmosphere, with champagne helping to make it a success! We had the pleasure of reconnecting with former presidents, honorary members, stalwarts of our congresses, and many young people, which makes us say that the SBR is dynamic and open to the future.
A special thank you to our former presidents who, although invited, were unable to travel: Guy PERRIER d’ARC, Michel BONNEROT, who sent us a small note of encouragement for this congress, and to Carl GUGINO, who sent us a video about the future of this profession that he loves so much and to which he owes its longevity!
A big thank you to our Japanese friends who came to take part in our congress, as in La Baule, in Lyon, and in Chantilly. This cooperation has become an extraordinary tradition, and so enriching—lots of champagne was also awarded with sparkling “Kempaî”.
It’s time to wish you excellent end-of-year holidays.
May they bring you the best—serenity and health.
Since we were in this city marked by the history of the Kings of France, instead of shouting “The King is dead, long live the King!” let us proclaim “Reims is dead, long live Rennes!”
The West region is waiting for you there on 13/14/15 September 2024 to continue our story “the vertical dimension, excess and insufficiency”
Smile! See you soon in Rennes
A happy president for this success in 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
Le 11 mai était la journée anniversaire de la création de la SBR… 50 ans !
The SBR is a fine fifty-something, and it is preparing for the celebration organized by the Île-de-France region in Reims on the 29-30 September and 1st October next. The bubbles are in the bottles and are just waiting to fizz with everyone who comes! The programme is being finalized; our Japanese friends will be there with eight people, including two young speakers: Drs Nagata and Nakatani.
Les conférencières et conférenciers français·es sont dans les starting-blocks pour parler de la coopération (ou de son absence !) pour arriver à nos fins. Golf pour les amateurs, champagne pour tous, conférences de haut niveau et surprise orthodontique… Occasion de réunir beaucoup de piliers de la SBR et de nombreux jeunes (les internes sont toujours invités à la soirée de gala !) autour de quelques flûtes. Les régions ont redoublé d’activité pendant ce premier semestre 2023, pour proposer toutes sortes de sujets à nos adhérents, et la SBR, au niveau national, n’a pas été en reste, avec sa participation à la semaine interfac qui s’est tenue à Montpellier cette année, la dernière semaine d’avril.
On the program: a case treated in electrodentistry—the wonderful typodont that works without taking a bath—broken up with conferences for the 56 interns of thee second year.
Thank you to everyone who participates actively in this training.
After Reims, we will go straight on to the orthodontic days organized by the FFO, from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 November, with an SBR session on continuing professional development (DPC) on “the physical mistreatment of children” with the SMODMF, a second one with the Cepog on “the contribution of neurosciences to our practice as caregivers” and finally a third in collaboration with the College of teachers on “eruption disorders from 5 to 7”.
Our Japanese friends in turn are organizing the anniversary of the BSC during their annual congress, which will be held in Tokyo on 19 and 20 November 2023: 40e anniversary at the same time as 7e international orthodontic conference, whose theme is: “The contribution of digital technology to the evolution of our Society”.
To finish, the website has just been updated, after a few issues (please be indulgent!), you will find all the information on the congress and of course the form to register directly online.
Have a great summer—rest well, so you can come back in shape for Reims!
1 january 2023
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
1973…. 2023… 50 ans. Nous voilà arrivés à l’âge d’une maturité certaine et notre Société, forte de plus de 800 membres se porte bien. Un long chemin a été parcouru depuis sa création en 1973 grâce à des confrères dynamiques et qui croyaient, à juste titre, en ce concept prometteur initié par le Docteur Robert Ricketts, les années Covid n’ont pas eu raison de notre désir de nous retrouver, d’organiser nos journées régionales et nationales contre vents et marées. Arcachon en 2020, Cassis en 2021 et Annecy en 2022 en ont été la preuve.
Let’s hope that 2023 will be a great celebration for the SBR, with rich and well-attended regional meetings for the largest number, crowned in late September 2023 with our jubilee in Reims.
The participation of the largest number is living proof of this vitality. And although we are celebrating the historic past of the Ricketts Society, which has become Bioprogressive, we can imagine—and decide on—an future that is only up to us to bring about.
The BSC, our Japanese equivalent, will be present in Reims and invites us already to celebrate their 40th anniversary in November 2023 in Tokyo. Having gone there twice, I can assure you that the comparison of our ways of practicing is more than enriching. The arrival of our Japanese colleagues, both in La Baule and in Chantilly, has always been a source of memorable evenings and friendship.
This is my dearest wish as President of the SBR. It comes with wishes for Happiness and for Health and Serenity for you and your families.
Long live the SBR and you are most welcome in Reims on the
29/30 September & 1 October 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
President SBR
29 september 2022
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
September was the time for a particularly pleasant meeting in Annecy. Jean-Luc OUHIOUN and Frédéric CHALAS organised an excellent congress, during which we all came together in an ever-warm and welcoming atmosphere—sharing convivial moments, from the cocktails at the Gala to the MTB and the Priscilla Sisters. The scientific programme was equally impressive, with top-level speakers who all contributed their expertise to this major issue that is TMJ disorders,
Merci à nos deux organisateurs qui ont mené ces journées de main de maitre … avec comme à Arcachon, à Cassis, un temps magnifique ! Merci à nos conférenciers, orthodontistes, dentistes, médecins, posturologues, chirurgiens, Kiné, tous passionnants. La diversité des spécialités a permis d’aborder l’ATM sous tous les angles, et de nous ouvrir les yeux. « Regarder au-delà des dents » a toujours été un leitmotiv de la pensée bioprogressive, et plusieurs kinés sont venus assister à nos conférences.
Thank you to our exhibitors and partners who help us organize these meetings, and thank you to all the many participants.
Annecy has come and gone—see you in Reims in 2023 to celebrate SBR’s 50th anniversary, created in May 1973 by a few orthodontists (Carl Gugino, Julien Philippe, Guy Perrier d’Arc among others; I ask your pardon for not naming everyone), the first bulletin of the Ricketts Society was a small leaflet: a few typewritten pages, with no photos, in black and white, distributed to about fifty members. Marc Gérald is now putting together a magnificent journal—please don’t hesitate to contact him if you wish to publish cases treated bioprogressively.
We now have 817 members; almost all of the residents are members, plus more than 40 students in the DU program. Three quarters of our members are specialists or on their way to becoming so.
The SBR will take part in the 24th Orthodontic Meetings organized by the FFO next November, with three co-organized sessions (on hypomaxillia, the nose, and the tongue). We look forward to seeing you there in large numbers!
We hope that this year 2022 ends well for you and leads into a 50th-anniversary year full of events.
We look forward to seeing you at our regional meetings and in Reims on 29–30 September and 1 October 2023.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear colleagues and friends,
The health situation seems to be improving day by day, and it allows us to consider a (bio)progressive return to our near-normal activities while always respecting our health measures.
We resumed our regional meetings in person in Paris and virtually in Marseille; and in March we had the pleasure of welcoming Pierre CANAL, who spoke with William BACON about orthodontic finishing and a subject close to his heart: wisdom teeth. He was received with a number of former students who benefited from his teaching and his advice. He brings an end to his career as a high-level lecturer after several decades during which he shared his experience with us. He is a pillar of the SBR, one of the few teachers of Ricketts’ philosophy who is retiring—well deserved.
After a two-year break due to the coronavirus, we resumed the interfaculty week in April, which brings together all ODF residents in France. The roughly 150 residents met in RENNES, and the SBR took charge of the 3rd-year training by teaching them bioprogressive mechanics through the treatment of a case involving electrodont .
A huge thank-you to the organizers, Damien BREZULIER and Capucine LUCAS, who managed this event with true mastery, as well as to the facilitators Veronika DERCSAR, Marie DOCO, Delphine WAGNER, Jacques BOHAR, Stéphane RENAUDIN, Marc Henri NIVET, Loïc GAUTIER. See you in April 2023 in Montpellier!”
Then, from 17 to 19 September, we’ll meet in Annecy for the 19th National Meetings. Jean-Luc OUHIOUN and Frédéric CHALAS prepared a particularly tempting program on the TMJ and its problems, from diagnosis to treatment, with well-known speakers in the field.
Two months later, back to the Orthodontic Meetings in Paris from 12 to 14 November. The 2021 Session was a great success, with more than 2,000 practitioners attending. In 2022, the SBR will organize 3 sessions on:
– ” Hypomaxillia and functional disorders ” with the association of the ODF journal,
– ” Nose and smile, intimate relationships ” with GREAT,
– ” The tongue, from here to there and all around ” with the CEPOG
So plenty more opportunities to meet up!
For the first time, the SBR has surpassed 800 members, including 141 residents—good news! Let’s keep looking after ourselves and our patients.
Bioprogressively yours!
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow women colleagues, dear fellow men colleagues, dear friends,
In 2005, during the national elections, Michel Delamaire, our Treasurer, handed over the baton to me so that I could become Treasurer in his place. I therefore carried out this mission for the past 16 years with the utmost seriousness, and having been elected President of our Society by the various regions last November, I now pass the baton to Eric Allouch, who I am sure will carry out this task with the same rigor that was mine. Continuity through change. 2021 marks this Bureau renewal, with Hanh Vuong-Pichel remaining our steadfast Secretary.
Merci d’aider Eric dans cette tâche délicate en choisissant autant que faire se peut le règlement de vos cotisations en ligne. Notre site , par l’intermédiaire de la rubrique « mon compte » vous permet de retrouver vos factures et justificatifs dès lors que vous avez réglé en ligne . Economie de temps, d’argent, de papiers … Que des avantages !
Remember to upload your photo to the online directory—it's always nicer and more personal to see our correspondents.
2021 was marked by many deaths among orthodontists, including two names known to the entire profession: Drs Bassigny and Vion, both authors of books that were our bibles at the beginning. Dr Vion and his “little red book” on cephalometrics remain a reference. He passed away at the end of November, and we did not have the time to give him a special tribute in our journal. That will be done in the next issue.
The Orthodontic Meetings returned with force in November, with 2,352 attendees, and the SBR was represented by actively organizing sessions. During these COVID years, our Society was able to organize its two congresses in Arcachon in 2020 and in Cassis in 2021, demonstrating the dynamism that drives us. The next congress in Annecy in September 2022 will undoubtedly be worthy of the occasion, taking us straight toward our 50th anniversary in 2023.
Une triste nouvelle est tombée quelques jours avant Noêl : le décès de Monique CHOUVIN, présidente du CTTD, l’ une des sociétés scientifiques composant la FFO. De plus cette dame charmante et appréciée avait élue administratrice de la FFO, à l’unanimité, faisant suite à Alain BERY. Que de décès en 2021…
May this new year bring Health, Happiness, and Success in the projects closest to our hearts; take part in our meetings, in all the joy of being together in person, just like at the November JO.
Happy New Year 2022 to everyone—take care of yourselves and your loved ones.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear colleague, dear friends,
The SBR continues to grow and we now have more than 730 members up to date with their dues as of 31 december 2024, including our DESODF trainees and the Japanese members who have joined us.
Si tous les membres étaient à jour de cette cotisation, nous serions presque 900 … avis aux retardataires !
You have just received the latest issue of our journal with clinical content, scientific articles, an interview with Stéphane Barthélémi explaining the conditions required by the qualification committee and the Society’s life. So a very complete issue, which I hope will fascinate you and also take you towards Madagascar, where a group of dental students went to provide care.
The cases presented came from the West—this is a challenge to the other regions! Which one will rise to it?
2025 started at full speed with a regional meeting every month during this first half of the year : a great opportunity in your respective regions to reconnect with your friends and exchange with them.
Not to be forgotten: interfaculties week for our trainees, to be held in early April in Bordeaux.
I still hope to be able to publish a very clinical, international issue of our next journal avec des présentations de cas venant de différents horizons… même s’il est très difficile de rassembler les praticiens contactés but the life of the Society depends on you and on your involvement.
The East region is working hard to prepare for us an original congress in September, in Colmar. You will learn more soon about the scientific program and the activities offered.
The Board renews its best wishes for this new year and you
can count on it to welcome you at all these planned events.
Bioprogressively yours,
Dear colleague, dear friends,
With our congress in Rennes in September and the Orthodontics Days in November in Paris, this year 2024 comes to an end with a rewarding summary.
lots of great photos from Rennes on the bioprog.com website!
A new feature during the Rennes congress: video recording of the lectures, which allowed you to watch them “at your leisure”—an experience to repeat, even if some details need to be improved.
2024 was also an election year. Through an electronic vote, we elected our regional delegates, who then appointed a regional board, and those regional boards chose a National Board. Our national secretary, Hanh Vuong-Pichelin, decided not to stand again. May she find here full recognition from the SBR for all those years spent managing the Society’s administration.
Permettez-moi d’évoquer un souvenir…
In February 2010, I visited Michel Delamaire at the hospital and told him that Hanh was our secretary. He simply gave me a thumbs-up sign to show his approval. Charlotte Eurin will replace her, with Mireille Biegel as deputy (Mireille is likely to be very busy with the congress in Colmar in 2025!)
Éric Allouch was re-elected as Treasurer, and I accepted a second term as President. A number of new members joined the regional boards, bringing fresh momentum and innovative ideas for the future. The electronic vote is an extremely simple procedure; a higher turnout would have been desirable (let’s note that around twenty of our Japanese friends, members of the BSC and therefore of the SBR, voted).
Next elections in September 2027. A new team, with new ideas.
2025 will be a busy year with regional meetings, not to mention an interfac week
for our trainees on 7, 8 and 9 April in Bordeaux, a congress in Colmar (12, 13 and 14 September), without forgetting the Orthodontics Days under the scientific chairmanship of Michel Le Gall (7, 8 and 9 November 2025).
Les projets ne manquent pas, nous avons évoqué un numéro plus international de notre revue, rassemblant des cas traités depuis plusieurs horizons, qui permettrait de confronter nos façons de faire, nos expériences… Et pourquoi ne pas organiser un voyage pour retrouver nos amis Japonais, à mi-chemin entre la France et le Japon. C’était une habitude il y a quelques années, et la convivialité était toujours au rendez-vous.
2024 is ending; i wish you excellent year-end celebrations, and may 2025 bring you
whatever you most want in the Sserenity, the Bkindness and the Rsuccess.
All the best for 2025!
Bioprogressively yours,
Dear colleague, dear friends,
The 21st SBR congress has just come to an end under beautiful Breton sunshine, which has become a most welcome tradition for the SBR.
If I go by the comments we received this week, satisfaction is in order, which does not surprise me given the quality of the speakers.
A very great THANK YOU to our thirteen speakers who presented work of a very high standard and were the architects of this success by bringing their experience and passion. No matter how much effort we put in to organize a wonderful congress, if the scientific quality is not there, the memories will be dull.
Even if the atmosphere is there, even if conviviality overflows, the scientific content is paramount and when all of that is brought together, all we can say is thank you.
Thank you also to all of you, present in large numbers, coming from all over France and abroad (from the United Arab Emirates to Japan), and to our fellow colleagues who had registered to follow the conferences via video link (Japan, USA, United Arab Emirates, DOMTOM). These recordings are a new feature; undoubtedly to be improved, but they are so enriching to watch again at home, at ease, to appreciate the content.
Thank you to Nathalie Hamel for her availability, indispensable for putting such an event in place, to Romy Moison, to Michel Lemonnier for the organization
And finally, a big Thank You to our partners, always there without whom we would not be able to organize this kind of event. They are welcome too, both during our breaks, our meals, our evenings and our raffle!
Our two evenings at the château of Montmuran and at the convent of the Jacobins allowed us to appreciate the convivial and festive atmosphere that prevails among all of us, to the sound of Breton music and the voice of our repeat-offender singer (for those who were in Reims).
All that’s left for us is to climb back down from our Everest (Thank you Nacer for this brilliant lecture) and to prepare ourselves for going to Paris on 7/8/9 November for the Orthodontic Days.
Without forgetting that we’re voting this year too! To renew our regional offices, which will then elect the National Board. Hanh VUONG-PICHELIN a décidé de ne pas se représenter comme secrétaire nationale, poste qu’elle occupait depuis une quinzaine d’années. Nous espérons quand même la revoir lors de prochains congrès pour partager des soirées amicales …
Vote, get involved, come to Paris, and relive the congress thanks to the photos on our website and our next Journal at the end of the year.
Your turn to play in the East, to welcome us the 12th, 13th and 14th of September 2025 in Colmar.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
President of the SBR
Dear fellow practitioner, dear colleagues, dear friends
To start off the year 2024, let me first renew my best wishes to you: much success in your projects, and good health that leaves you with “form memory” to withstand the viruses still going around. We hope that 2024 will be a year full of promise and peace.
The SBR’s projects are the event from the congress in Rennes on the 13/14/15 September next, on the theme of “the vertical dimension, excess and insufficiency”.
We are devoting time to it with the West office, Romy MOISON and Michel LE MONNIER; the scientific program is finalized, as are the festivities, because a congress is also the pleasure of getting together and sharing convivial moments in the midst of our sponsors. We hope to welcome our Japanese friends again this year as they asked that the BSC members (the Japanese SBR) be counted among the SBR.
All this, without forgetting the regional meetings, the inter-faculty week (from 15 to 19 April in Toulouse), our JO (Orthodontic Days in November!) under the chairmanship of Michel LE GALL.
2024 will also be an important year for the SBR because it is an election year: renewal of the various Boards and the National Board.
Get involved in the regions! C’est grâce à de nouveaux membres que la Société vit et se dynamise … les anciens peuvent apporter l’expérience, les jeunes de nouvelles idées et la succession n’en est que plus facile quand une génération se retire. Il est donc important de préparer l’avenir pour que les jeunes ne débarquent pas dans un univers inconnu et qu’ils soient épaulés par les plus anciens .
We are still fine-tuning our journal, our directory, our website, our files. This requires ongoing work, and the work of the Board members, of Nathalie Hamel, of Sandra is important. Let each member contribute en prévenant des modifications d’adresse, de mail … trop de revues reviennent avec la mention « inconnu à l’adresse indiquée ».
As a famous sports journalist used to say: MO-BI-LI-SE- YOURSELF!
Bonne année 2024… rendez vous à RENNES en septembre.
Smile! See you soon in Rennes
A happy president for this success in 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
The year 2023 has been full of events for the SBR, with numerous regional days, but above all a magnificent congress in late September in REIMS to celebrate its 50 years of existence. Thank you to the organizers Jean Michel BONVARLET, Isabelle MARZIN, Hanh VUONG-PICHELIN, Eric ALLOUCH and the entire Ile-de-France regional Board. They set the bar very high in order to celebrate this jubilee properly, and it will be remembered as a success in every respect: both scientific, with a panel of top-level speakers, and festive, in an exceptionally convivial atmosphere, with champagne helping to make it a success! We had the pleasure of reconnecting with former presidents, honorary members, stalwarts of our congresses, and many young people, which makes us say that the SBR is dynamic and open to the future.
A special thank you to our former presidents who, although invited, were unable to travel: Guy PERRIER d’ARC, Michel BONNEROT, who sent us a small note of encouragement for this congress, and to Carl GUGINO, who sent us a video about the future of this profession that he loves so much and to which he owes its longevity!
A big thank you to our Japanese friends who came to take part in our congress, as in La Baule, in Lyon, and in Chantilly. This cooperation has become an extraordinary tradition, and so enriching—lots of champagne was also awarded with sparkling “Kempaî”.
It’s time to wish you excellent end-of-year holidays.
May they bring you the best—serenity and health.
Since we were in this city marked by the history of the Kings of France, instead of shouting “The King is dead, long live the King!” let us proclaim “Reims is dead, long live Rennes!”
The West region is waiting for you there on 13/14/15 September 2024 to continue our story “the vertical dimension, excess and insufficiency”
Smile! See you soon in Rennes
A happy president for this success in 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
Le 11 mai était la journée anniversaire de la création de la SBR… 50 ans !
The SBR is a fine fifty-something, and it is preparing for the celebration organized by the Île-de-France region in Reims on the 29-30 September and 1st October next. The bubbles are in the bottles and are just waiting to fizz with everyone who comes! The programme is being finalized; our Japanese friends will be there with eight people, including two young speakers: Drs Nagata and Nakatani.
Les conférencières et conférenciers français·es sont dans les starting-blocks pour parler de la coopération (ou de son absence !) pour arriver à nos fins. Golf pour les amateurs, champagne pour tous, conférences de haut niveau et surprise orthodontique… Occasion de réunir beaucoup de piliers de la SBR et de nombreux jeunes (les internes sont toujours invités à la soirée de gala !) autour de quelques flûtes. Les régions ont redoublé d’activité pendant ce premier semestre 2023, pour proposer toutes sortes de sujets à nos adhérents, et la SBR, au niveau national, n’a pas été en reste, avec sa participation à la semaine interfac qui s’est tenue à Montpellier cette année, la dernière semaine d’avril.
On the program: a case treated in electrodentistry—the wonderful typodont that works without taking a bath—broken up with conferences for the 56 interns of thee second year.
Thank you to everyone who participates actively in this training.
After Reims, we will go straight on to the orthodontic days organized by the FFO, from Friday 10 to Sunday 12 November, with an SBR session on continuing professional development (DPC) on “the physical mistreatment of children” with the SMODMF, a second one with the Cepog on “the contribution of neurosciences to our practice as caregivers” and finally a third in collaboration with the College of teachers on “eruption disorders from 5 to 7”.
Our Japanese friends in turn are organizing the anniversary of the BSC during their annual congress, which will be held in Tokyo on 19 and 20 November 2023: 40e anniversary at the same time as 7e international orthodontic conference, whose theme is: “The contribution of digital technology to the evolution of our Society”.
To finish, the website has just been updated, after a few issues (please be indulgent!), you will find all the information on the congress and of course the form to register directly online.
Have a great summer—rest well, so you can come back in shape for Reims!
1 january 2023
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
1973…. 2023… 50 ans. Nous voilà arrivés à l’âge d’une maturité certaine et notre Société, forte de plus de 800 membres se porte bien. Un long chemin a été parcouru depuis sa création en 1973 grâce à des confrères dynamiques et qui croyaient, à juste titre, en ce concept prometteur initié par le Docteur Robert Ricketts, les années Covid n’ont pas eu raison de notre désir de nous retrouver, d’organiser nos journées régionales et nationales contre vents et marées. Arcachon en 2020, Cassis en 2021 et Annecy en 2022 en ont été la preuve.
Let’s hope that 2023 will be a great celebration for the SBR, with rich and well-attended regional meetings for the largest number, crowned in late September 2023 with our jubilee in Reims.
The participation of the largest number is living proof of this vitality. And although we are celebrating the historic past of the Ricketts Society, which has become Bioprogressive, we can imagine—and decide on—an future that is only up to us to bring about.
The BSC, our Japanese equivalent, will be present in Reims and invites us already to celebrate their 40th anniversary in November 2023 in Tokyo. Having gone there twice, I can assure you that the comparison of our ways of practicing is more than enriching. The arrival of our Japanese colleagues, both in La Baule and in Chantilly, has always been a source of memorable evenings and friendship.
This is my dearest wish as President of the SBR. It comes with wishes for Happiness and for Health and Serenity for you and your families.
Long live the SBR and you are most welcome in Reims on the
29/30 September & 1 October 2023
Patrick GUEZENEC
President SBR
29 september 2022
Dear fellow female practitioners, dear colleagues, dear friends,
September was the time for a particularly pleasant meeting in Annecy. Jean-Luc OUHIOUN and Frédéric CHALAS organised an excellent congress, during which we all came together in an ever-warm and welcoming atmosphere—sharing convivial moments, from the cocktails at the Gala to the MTB and the Priscilla Sisters. The scientific programme was equally impressive, with top-level speakers who all contributed their expertise to this major issue that is TMJ disorders,
Merci à nos deux organisateurs qui ont mené ces journées de main de maitre … avec comme à Arcachon, à Cassis, un temps magnifique ! Merci à nos conférenciers, orthodontistes, dentistes, médecins, posturologues, chirurgiens, Kiné, tous passionnants. La diversité des spécialités a permis d’aborder l’ATM sous tous les angles, et de nous ouvrir les yeux. « Regarder au-delà des dents » a toujours été un leitmotiv de la pensée bioprogressive, et plusieurs kinés sont venus assister à nos conférences.
Thank you to our exhibitors and partners who help us organize these meetings, and thank you to all the many participants.
Annecy has come and gone—see you in Reims in 2023 to celebrate SBR’s 50th anniversary, created in May 1973 by a few orthodontists (Carl Gugino, Julien Philippe, Guy Perrier d’Arc among others; I ask your pardon for not naming everyone), the first bulletin of the Ricketts Society was a small leaflet: a few typewritten pages, with no photos, in black and white, distributed to about fifty members. Marc Gérald is now putting together a magnificent journal—please don’t hesitate to contact him if you wish to publish cases treated bioprogressively.
We now have 817 members; almost all of the residents are members, plus more than 40 students in the DU program. Three quarters of our members are specialists or on their way to becoming so.
The SBR will take part in the 24th Orthodontic Meetings organized by the FFO next November, with three co-organized sessions (on hypomaxillia, the nose, and the tongue). We look forward to seeing you there in large numbers!
We hope that this year 2022 ends well for you and leads into a 50th-anniversary year full of events.
We look forward to seeing you at our regional meetings and in Reims on 29–30 September and 1 October 2023.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear colleagues and friends,
The health situation seems to be improving day by day, and it allows us to consider a (bio)progressive return to our near-normal activities while always respecting our health measures.
We resumed our regional meetings in person in Paris and virtually in Marseille; and in March we had the pleasure of welcoming Pierre CANAL, who spoke with William BACON about orthodontic finishing and a subject close to his heart: wisdom teeth. He was received with a number of former students who benefited from his teaching and his advice. He brings an end to his career as a high-level lecturer after several decades during which he shared his experience with us. He is a pillar of the SBR, one of the few teachers of Ricketts’ philosophy who is retiring—well deserved.
After a two-year break due to the coronavirus, we resumed the interfaculty week in April, which brings together all ODF residents in France. The roughly 150 residents met in RENNES, and the SBR took charge of the 3rd-year training by teaching them bioprogressive mechanics through the treatment of a case involving electrodont .
A huge thank-you to the organizers, Damien BREZULIER and Capucine LUCAS, who managed this event with true mastery, as well as to the facilitators Veronika DERCSAR, Marie DOCO, Delphine WAGNER, Jacques BOHAR, Stéphane RENAUDIN, Marc Henri NIVET, Loïc GAUTIER. See you in April 2023 in Montpellier!”
Then, from 17 to 19 September, we’ll meet in Annecy for the 19th National Meetings. Jean-Luc OUHIOUN and Frédéric CHALAS prepared a particularly tempting program on the TMJ and its problems, from diagnosis to treatment, with well-known speakers in the field.
Two months later, back to the Orthodontic Meetings in Paris from 12 to 14 November. The 2021 Session was a great success, with more than 2,000 practitioners attending. In 2022, the SBR will organize 3 sessions on:
– ” Hypomaxillia and functional disorders ” with the association of the ODF journal,
– ” Nose and smile, intimate relationships ” with GREAT,
– ” The tongue, from here to there and all around ” with the CEPOG
So plenty more opportunities to meet up!
For the first time, the SBR has surpassed 800 members, including 141 residents—good news! Let’s keep looking after ourselves and our patients.
Bioprogressively yours!
Patrick GUEZENEC
Dear fellow women colleagues, dear fellow men colleagues, dear friends,
In 2005, during the national elections, Michel Delamaire, our Treasurer, handed over the baton to me so that I could become Treasurer in his place. I therefore carried out this mission for the past 16 years with the utmost seriousness, and having been elected President of our Society by the various regions last November, I now pass the baton to Eric Allouch, who I am sure will carry out this task with the same rigor that was mine. Continuity through change. 2021 marks this Bureau renewal, with Hanh Vuong-Pichel remaining our steadfast Secretary.
Merci d’aider Eric dans cette tâche délicate en choisissant autant que faire se peut le règlement de vos cotisations en ligne. Notre site , par l’intermédiaire de la rubrique « mon compte » vous permet de retrouver vos factures et justificatifs dès lors que vous avez réglé en ligne . Economie de temps, d’argent, de papiers … Que des avantages !
Remember to upload your photo to the online directory—it's always nicer and more personal to see our correspondents.
2021 was marked by many deaths among orthodontists, including two names known to the entire profession: Drs Bassigny and Vion, both authors of books that were our bibles at the beginning. Dr Vion and his “little red book” on cephalometrics remain a reference. He passed away at the end of November, and we did not have the time to give him a special tribute in our journal. That will be done in the next issue.
The Orthodontic Meetings returned with force in November, with 2,352 attendees, and the SBR was represented by actively organizing sessions. During these COVID years, our Society was able to organize its two congresses in Arcachon in 2020 and in Cassis in 2021, demonstrating the dynamism that drives us. The next congress in Annecy in September 2022 will undoubtedly be worthy of the occasion, taking us straight toward our 50th anniversary in 2023.
Une triste nouvelle est tombée quelques jours avant Noêl : le décès de Monique CHOUVIN, présidente du CTTD, l’ une des sociétés scientifiques composant la FFO. De plus cette dame charmante et appréciée avait élue administratrice de la FFO, à l’unanimité, faisant suite à Alain BERY. Que de décès en 2021…
May this new year bring Health, Happiness, and Success in the projects closest to our hearts; take part in our meetings, in all the joy of being together in person, just like at the November JO.
Happy New Year 2022 to everyone—take care of yourselves and your loved ones.
Bioprogressively yours
Patrick GUEZENEC
