Tuesday, 27 May 2014

Germán Valenzuela Basterrica

Germán Valenzuela Basterrica was the founder of  the first dental school of Chile in 1911.He studied medicine and after he went to France to study odontology  in the dental school of Paris. when he  received him university degree of dentist, he returned to Chile to be the director of the Escuela de Dentistrica.was on February 5nd 1909 whit the fire of German Legation Also known as Becker's crime when he taken relevancy because he was determinant to found  the identity of the perpetrator and safed Chile  of the german demand  that tried to annex the Estrecho de Magallanes to Germany. So in gratitude the president of chile give to Germán the choice of make the first dental school of Chile named Escuela Dental Dr. Germán Valenzuela Basterrica , which  was opened on September 10nd 1911.
in this way Germán Valenzuela Basterrica was very important to the chilean odontology because he help to put the odontology in relevance to the medicine, and modernized the dientist career. and also he founded the school which after will be our Faculty of Odontologia. 

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