Early in 2016, I had been invited by the Berlin Society of Periodontology for giving an evening seminar at the University Dental School of Charité. As I had dedicated considerable time and effort for unveiling details and peculiarities of the so-called Engebretson scandal which had concomitantly been published on this blog, I found the invitation an excellent opportunity to share my views on the scandal with a distinguished auditorium of Berlin periodontists who, after all, had been trained and educated by late Professor Jean-Pierre Bernimoulin. Bernimoulin had passed in September 2015 and I confirmed in the introduction of my seminar that he had actually been the only periodontist in Germany (he was originally from Belgium) of international stature in his time.

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