Dr. Luis Ciocca

      Dr. Luis Ciocca is Titular Professor and Director of the Departament of forensic dental of the University of Chile, In 1960 he started his studies at this University, obtaining the title of surgeon dentist and specializing in orthodontics and dento-maxilary orthopedics.

He is a pioneer of forensic dentistry in Chile, it all started when he identify the teeth of a patient of him, died in tragic circumstances in 1976. Comparing the clinical file of the patient with the remains found, were establishing their identity. Subsequently Dr. Ciocca continued his career in dentistry legally recognizing corpses and linking evidence with records of bite, in others tip of crimes.

Dr. Ciocca, for all his work, his role as a teacher, his courage to identify people disappeared during the military dictatorship and for his way of being. Earlier this year, I had the privilege of attending a class of Dr. Ciocca, where he told us about the forensic dentistry and showed us some of the cases in which the he participated, at that moment I was stunned by their history and I am now considering the specialty of forensic dentistry.