Resumen de Angelo Chiavaro (1870-1944), the first “American style” Italian dentist

Paolo Zampetti, Andrea Scribante

• Angelo Chiavaro (1870-1944) took his Medicine Degree at the University of Florence and then moved to the University of Philadelphia; he was the first Italian doctor to enroll and graduate from the Philadelphia Dental School, obtaining in 1899 the diploma of Doctor of Dental Surgery. In 1915, he was the first full professor of Dental Clinics in Rome; in 1923, he established a “National School of Dentistry” in Rome and his aim was to confer the first Italian degree in Dentistry and Dental Prosthetics following a University educational path similar to American schools.