Juan Ubaldo Carrea Zelaschi, Argentine orthodontist (Buenos Aires 06 May 1883 – Buenos Aires 14 April 1956)
Authored 210 publications
Developed a classification and notation system for rugae palatinae (1937)
With E. Lanari developed cephalometric teleradiography (1923)
Dispositives for treatment of fractures such as an immobilizer one for mandibular fractures
Carrea technique for block anesthesia of maxillary nerves (1921) after Mendel (1917)
Named goniodentomentian plane and radius-chorda
First to estimate odontometric data and related it to stature in Ensayos odontométricos. Thesis, Univ. Nac. Buenos Aires (1920)
EPONYMY
Carrea classification for malocclusions
Carrea odontometric indices
Carrea point
Carrea plane or ormafrón
Carrea mentoglabellar plane
HONOURS
Miller Prize, World Dental Federation (1946)