Oscar Luis Amoedo y Valdez, Cuban dentist radicated in
France (Matanzas 10 November 1863 –
Paris 27 September 1945) Authored
over 120 papers Regarded as
founder of the forensic stomatology ACHIEVEMENTS
Authored first treatise on human identification using dental archs The role of
the dentists in the identification of the victims of the catastrophe of the
“bazar de la charité”, Paris, 4th of May, 1897. The Dental
Cosmos 39:905-12, 1897 First to describe a paradental epithelial rest constant in human Developpement des dents permanents; ebauche d’une troisieme dentition chez l’homme (1887)
Imagined a method for treating dead teeth Tratamiento de los dientes muertes y relleno immediato de
sus raíces. Presented in First
International Dental Congress, Paris (1892) Developed a technique for implantation of decalcified teeth Implantation
des dents decalcifiées (1894) His thesis
L’Art Dentaire em Médecine Légale had international repercussion and translated
into many languages (1898) Nuevo manual operatorio para la queiloplastia del lábio (1889) DEVELOPED (23 dental instruments) such as A needle used joint to galvano-cautery A thermocautery A syringe for sterilizing devitalized teeth (1894) An adjustable anatomical articulator A simplified articulator Amoedo articulated silver plate A forceps Root canal instruments Stereoscopic
binocular odontoscope LINKS
HTTP://www.revmatanzas.sld.cu/revista%20medica/ano%202007/vol5%202007/tema17.htm (in Spanish) WWW.bium.univ-paris5.fr/sfhad/vol10/article04.htm (in French) |
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