Oscar Amoëdo y Valdes

Oscar Amoëdo

Louis Oscar Amoëdo y Valdes (born November 10, 1863 in Matanzas , Cuba , † September 27, 1945 in Toulouse ) was a Cuban doctor and dentist who is considered the father of modern forensic dentistry . In 1889 he attended the International Dental Congress in Paris as a member of the Cuban delegation , after which he stayed in France for the rest of his life .

Life

Oscar Amoëdo was born into simple circumstances in Matanzas near Havana . After completing primary school, he assisted the well-known dentist Ricardo Gordon, who soon recognized Amoëdo's talent and recommended him to study at the Florencio Cancio Zamora Dental Academy in Havana. He went to New York Dental College with an A, and returned to Cuba in 1988, where he distinguished himself through numerous surgical procedures. Soon he published numerous professional articles. Together with Carlos García Vélez , he edited the Revista Estomatológica ( Portuguese : Stomatological magazine ).

In 1889, the Cuban Dental Association sent him to the International Dental Congress in Paris, where he found that his publications had since been translated into French. He decided to stay and also in Paris Medicine study. His dissertation forensic dentistry called his doctor father as a basis for work in dentistry , which would go far beyond a dissertation. He had filled a gap in knowledge about the possibilities of identification based on dental findings.

He opened a small dental practice in a hotel room in the Latin Quarter . He devotes himself to research and quickly achieved great fame, soon having to deal with opponents and competitors who complained, among other things, that he did not have French citizenship . This is a prerequisite for obtaining a teaching qualification . He must either give up his Cuban citizenship or his professorship . On the basis of a request from the university, however, the French Minister of Education granted him the license to teach at the École odontotechnique in Paris (Décret du 24 juillet 1900).

Soon after, he was elected President of the French Dental Association.

research

Oscar Amoëdo has worked in all areas of dental science and practice. He has published more than 120 professional articles. He developed instruments for certain oral surgical techniques, syringes , instruments for root canal filling and articulators . In the field of prosthetics , he devoted himself to immediate prostheses . He has published articles on TMJ disease and papers on Pithecanthropus erectus teeth .

Amoëdo was a member of 14 scientific medical and dental societies and participated in 57 professional conferences around the western world, most recently in 1936 at the age of 72.

Forensic odontology

A tragic fire disaster at a charity event in Paris , the Bazar de la Charité , where 129 people were killed on May 4, 1897, drew Amoedos' attention to right dentistry. It was about the identification of the burnt victims. Amoëdo was not involved in identifying the burn victims himself, but interviewed the people involved and published the results in the first book on forensic dentistry, L'Art Dentaire de Medicine Legale . He himself names Albert Hans, the Paraguayan consul, as the originator of forensic dentistry. He called the dentists treating the burn victims together in order to identify the victims.

During the 12th Moscow International Congress he lectured on the role of dentists in identifying bodies, referring to the charity bazaar disaster. His 608-page work, published by Masson et Cie , soon received reference status in forensic odontology. It contains identification techniques, explanations for the detection of bite injuries and age diagnosis based on the wear and tear of the teeth. It describes 52 criteria for identification.

Honors

Oscar Amoëdo was a member of the dental societies from Spain, Sweden, Finland, Colombia, Denmark and Canada. He was president and honorary member of many of these institutions. He has received over a hundred international awards and medals, including

Knight of the Legion of Honor (France)
Order of Charles III. (the highest civil award given in Spain)
Order of Alfonso XII. (for outstanding merits in the field of research)
Officer des Ordre des Palmes Académiques (one of the highest honors in France for services to French education)
Order of the bust of Bolivar
Portuguese Order of Christ

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O. Amoëdo, L'art dentaire en médecine légale, Masson éditeur, Paris 1898.
O. Amoëdo, Notes sur la nomenclature dentaire, L'odontologie, 1911, XLV, n ° 11, p 481-484.
O. Amoëdo, Nouvel articulateur anatomique, Revue odontologique, May 1911, n ° 5, p 227-230
O. Amoëdo, Seringue hypodermique stérilisable, Revue odontologique, May 1896, n ° 5, p 203-207.
O. Amoëdo, Les dents après la mort, Revue odontologique, April 1904, n ° 4, p 159-177.
O. Amoëdo, Les dents après la mort, Revue odontologique, May 1904, n ° 5, p 214-229.
O. Amoëdo, Deux implantations consolidées faites dans le traitement d'un cas de pyorrhée alvéolaire, revue de stomatologie, tVII, p25-27.
Ian R. Hill et al., Forensic Odontology - It's Scope and History, IOFOS, 1984.
CR Exposito, Dr. Oscar Amoëdo y Valdes, una figura de la odontologia universal. Cuadernos de Historia de la Salud Publica. La Habana, Cuba 1969.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b SFHAD 2001. In: biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved February 16, 2015 (French).
^ Forensic Dentistry . Springer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-642-50273-6 , pp. 139 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Example: Oscar Amoëdo, Taking the occlusion and registering the condyle path , The Dental Cosmos, April 1914, Volume 46 No. 4. Accessed on November 13, 2016.
↑ Xavier Riaud, Une histoire de la police scientifique en France , accessed on February 10, 2015.
^ David R. Senn, Paul G. Stimson: Forensic Dentistry, Second Edition . CRC Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4200-7837-4 , pp. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Oscar Amoëdo, The role of the dentists in the identification of the victims of the catastrophe of the “Bazar de la Charite” , Paris, May 4, 1897. Dental Cosmos 39: 905-912.
^ Oscar Amoëdo, Dentistry in Forensic Medicine . Translated from the French by Gottlieb Port taking into account the German legal situation, Verlag Artur Felix, Leipzig, 1900. Retrieved on February 10, 2015.

personal data
SURNAME	Amoëdo y Valdes, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Amoëdo y Valdes, Louis Oscar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Cuban doctor and dentist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 10, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH	Matanzas , Cuba
DATE OF DEATH	September 27, 1945
Place of death	Toulouse

[Amoedo-1] SFHAD 2001. In: biusante.parisdescartes.fr. Retrieved February 16, 2015 (French).

[2] Forensic Dentistry . Springer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-642-50273-6 , pp. 139 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Example: Oscar Amoëdo, Taking the occlusion and registering the condyle path , The Dental Cosmos, April 1914, Volume 46 No. 4. Accessed on November 13, 2016.

[4] Xavier Riaud, Une histoire de la police scientifique en France , accessed on February 10, 2015.

[5] David R. Senn, Paul G. Stimson: Forensic Dentistry, Second Edition . CRC Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4200-7837-4 , pp. 17 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[6] Oscar Amoëdo, The role of the dentists in the identification of the victims of the catastrophe of the “Bazar de la Charite” , Paris, May 4, 1897. Dental Cosmos 39: 905-912.

[7] Oscar Amoëdo, Dentistry in Forensic Medicine . Translated from the French by Gottlieb Port taking into account the German legal situation, Verlag Artur Felix, Leipzig, 1900. Retrieved on February 10, 2015.