German Valenzuela Basterrica
Hi! Today I will write about an important person in odontology. German Valenzuela Basterrica was born in 1859, he was a doctor and a dentist. In 1889 he was the director and teacher of the Escuela de Dentística of Chile. In 1909 he solved an important case, where a person died in a fire of the German Legation in Chile. People thought the dead was the chancellor Guillermo Beckert Trambauer and Legal medical service confirmed it. The janitor, called Exequiel Tapia had disappeared, so the police think he was the guilty of the murder. But German Valenzuela Basterrica analyzed the dental rests of the body and discovered that the body was of the janitor Tapia. After months, the police found Beckert trying scape of Chile and was pleaded guilty of the murder of Tapia. The president of Chile in that moment, Pedro Montt, offered to him a reward for his work and he asked for the built of modern dental school. I admire him for his work and because he could asked for anyth...