An interview with Didier Fillion

Luiz Fernando ETO, Graça GUIMARÃES, Carla Maria Melleiro GIMENEZ, Andréia Cortim FERREIRA, Marcelo MARIGO, Alexander MACEDO, Valter Ossamu ARIMA, Rita Baratela THURLER, Marcos gabriel PRIETO, Alexandre MORO

Dr. Didier Fillion began his career after graduating from the Paris V University at Sams, a small French town and his homeland. After having developed his basic training at the Tweed Foundation, he decided to devote himself to Lingual Orthodontics encouraged by the courses administered by Dr. John C. Gorman, which he attended seven times in a row. Determined to work exclusively with lingual orthodontics, he settled in Paris and for over 30 years has garnered worldwide acclaim for the excellence of his clinical results using this technique, by melding together quality and aesthetics. Although his first choice was to be a full time clinician, his professional brilliance opened the doors to an academic career, and Dr. Fillion has been invited to give classes and courses on lingual orthodontics at the Paris V University, New York University, University of Ferrara, University of Coimbra, among others. In seeking to teach this technique with utmost expertise and thereby strengthen its worldwide presence, he invested considerable hard work to found the French Lingual Orthodontic Society and was instrumental in the process of establishing similar organizations around the globe, including the Brazilian Association of Lingual Orthodontics (ABOL) and the World Society of Lingual Orthodontics (WSLO). He currently administers courses in several countries around the world, educating his audiences on the progress experienced by lingual orthodontics while disseminating the increasingly predictable and consistent clinical outcomes achieved with this technique. Recently he once again visited Brazil at the invitation of the Brazilian Association of Lingual Orthodontics (ABOL) for a course in which he presented his new virtual set-up and bracket transfer system. On that occasion he kindly gave us an interview fielding some questions posed by Brazilian orthodontists who practice the lingual technique. I hope you enjoy it. Luiz Fernando Eto

Friday, December 27, 2024 14:47