[Eighty years of Catedra de Protesis]

Professor Antonio J. Guardo, important figur of the School of Dentistry of Buenos Aires, was the first professor who achieved in this school such a hierarchy being a dentist; for at that time it was demande for the Professorship the title of physician. The alternatives of this designation as professor are here described and at the same time some of the circumstances of his brillant teaching carreer, with references to his beginings and the family he formed.