German Valenzuela Basterrica was an important dentist
in the history of Chilean Odontology. He solved the case of the German embassy in Chile (date). In this case the German embassy was burnt and a man's
body too. All the people thought that the killer and the men who burnt the
embassy was the doorman and the body belonged to the German diplomat Mr. Becker.
The German goverment demanded “el estrecho de Magallanes”
because there was a declaration of war. It was a very serious problem for Chile.When Dr. Valenzuela was seeing the body he compared the medical buccal history and say that the body belonged to the doorman and
change everything. Obviously the real killer was Mr. Becker, and sometime later
the police caught him in the mountain when he pretended to go to Argentina.Because that the Chilean goverment reward Dr.
Valenzuela with whatever he wanted and he asked a dental school, the first in
Chile. It was an important contribution, an other important contribution was that the Odontology was more important and got respect in the society.Nowadays, the first dental school doesn't exist but his idea of the importance of dentists it's steel with us. It's important to say that, if Germany would have got "El estrecho de Magallanes" they would had won an adventage for the Second World War, and all the history would be different.
I found out about him because all the first week in the University the teachers talked about this important man.
I also choose a person in relationship with the history of Odontology, for me they are the most important people for this career, because without them we couldn`t know all the things that we know today.
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