Catalina Huincache

This semester I have two favorite subjects, very different from each other. One is Anatomy and the other is Anthropology.  Anatomy is interesting because she studied the human body (muscles, organs, arteries, veins, nerves and bones) and in the practical steps we working whit real human body. And Anthropology it`s based on the dentistry in the community. Teaches us about how can we be integral professionals. Anatomy I liked because is interesting study our body, and I this semester I had to repeat the subject so I understood it better and I learned to love it. I liked Anthropology because it gives another meaning to dentistry and not the classic dentist. In Anatomy I learned very names of parts of bones, the travel of the arteries and veins, the muscles that are innervated  by each nerve and almost all the muscles and bones of body. And in Anthropology I learned about integrative medicine, the history of cavities, compassion in clinical practice and the treatment of pain.

Luis Giocca Gomez is the f orerunner of forensic dentistry in Chile, has throughout his career emblematic cases: the young Jorge Matute Johns, the missing detainee Marta Ugarte Román and the conscript of the Yungay regiment of San Felipe. The beginnings of Dr. Ciocca are remotan to the year 1956, when he arrived from the northern city of Iquique to study Dentistry in Santiago. In 1966, Dr. Ciocca received his Odontology degree from the University of Chile, his first specialty was Orthodontics and he was dedicated in its beginnings to assist patients both in this area and in General Dentistry. His life changed when the relatives of Marta Ugarte Roman, asked for help to recognize the body of a person who had been found on the beach of La Ballena in Region V and confirm or rule out that it could be her. It turned out that it was his patient. Thus, Dr. Ciocca made the first recognition of a missing detainee, the case of Marta Ugarte Román was news and came out as a cover in the newspaper