About Us

Hello, my name is Javier Higuera Fontelo and I welcome you to our page.

I am Argentine and I live in Buenos Aires, the city where I was also born. I am Marisol’s husband and Olivia and Baltazar’s father.

Thanks to my mother I am a dentist (she was also one) and because of my father I am passionate about lasers (he imported the first Lasers in Ophthalmology from Latin America in the ’70s). Therefore, as a child, this technology caught my attention. It was clear to me, he would be a dentist like my mother and he would use the laser like my father. But there was a small obstacle:

NOBODY USED LASER IN DENTISTRY AT THAT TIME!

So it was that, while still a student, in 1995, I ventured into the Argon Laser in ophthalmology and did my first dental treatments with it. I also used CO2, Nd:YAG, Ho:YAG (Holmium) and Er:YAG (Erbium) lasers. But there was a laser that would accompany me forever: the diode laser…

In Argentina I participated in the formation of the first study group on Laser in Dentistry, CAEDOL. Then, led by Dr. Beatriz Maresca, I was a Founding Member of the Laser Unit of the UBA in 1999, where we began to give the first courses in the country and the First Director of the Laser Unit of the Kennedy University, where we taught the First Diploma in this area. Here, we managed to include, for the first time (in the world), the subject “Laser in Dentistry” in the program of a Dentistry Degree. I was also Director of the Annual Postgraduate Course “Lasers in Biology applied to the oral cavity”, between 2015 and 2019, at IBYME – CONICET, birthplace of the 3 and only Nobel Prize winners in Latin America (Beranrdo Houssay, Luis Federico Leloir and César Milstein).

With reference to Laser in Dentistry at an international level, I have participated in the First Laser Course in Dentistry in South America in 1996, at the Laser Training Laboratory in Dentistry (LELO) at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), I joined the American Laser Dentistry in 1997 and then to the World Federation Laser Dentistry (WFLD) of which I was part of the Board of Directors for South America. I had the honor of being the only international guest at the First Laser Chapter of the Brazilian Society for Research in Dentistry (SBPqO). The laser has taken me to countries like Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Spain, France and also India and Japan.

From 2003 to date, my wife, Ms. Marisol Russo, through her Consultant, Mediare – Comprehensive Communication – designed a strategy to publicize and position Laser in Dentistry at a regional level and in the rest of the world, carrying out the Communication and Dissemination of the activities we carry out, as well as its entire organization, ensuring that the topic has been imposed and made known in the correct way, contributing to the good use and learning of Laser in Dentistry.

From 2018 to the present, I have the honor of belonging to the Academy of International Dentistry (ADI), an Honorary Society worldwide and the only one to reach the United Nations, serving as Chairman for Argentina and as Vice Regent for South America. In this context, at ADI Argentina, we develop activities to disseminate Laser in Dentistry, social tasks such as our “Tongue Destrobal Project”, which provides free laser lingual frenectomies to disadvantaged patients (which is already working in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay). and which has been presented to Pope Francis in the Vatican. Through ADI, we have been offering the “Annual Diploma on Lasers in Dentistry” since 2020, being the most popular on the subject and with vacancies sold out every year.

I have carried out numerous research on Lasers, both in Dentistry and in other areas of health and I have exhaustively studied the biological principles that govern the interaction of the laser with tissues, especially in the oral cavity. However, I consider both scientific evidence and biological principles the bases to be able to correctly use the laser on patients, to be able to perform simplified treatments with long-term predictability. In that sense, as a dentist, I consider the Hippocratic clinical method of “Above all, do no harm” and “The Clinic is Sovereign” to be crucial.

According to Stephen Hawkings, “the true enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, but the illusion of knowledge”, according to the architect Mies van der Rohe “Less is more” and for the neurosurgeon Henry Marsh “It takes 3 months to learn to make a operation, 3 years to know when to do it and 30 years to know when not to do it.”

Finally, we will quote the great physicist Albert Einstein to define that “Life is like riding a bicycle: to maintain balance you have to keep moving.”

We are waiting for you in our training on Laser in Dentistry that we have been giving for 30 years. Do not hesitate to contact us or participate in our continuous training. I hope you can join.

It’s worth it!

Prof. Dr. Javier Higuera Fontelo

Doctorate in Dentistry (PhD), Pulpal and Periodontal Biology Area

“Prof. Dr. Ignacio Imaz” (Best Doctoral Thesis of 2009)

Specialist in Endodontics

Postgraduate in Oral Implantology

Resident at Division de Stomatologie et Chirurgie Orale and Division of Fixed Prosthodontics and Occlusion, Faculté de Médecine, Université de Genéve, Switzerland

Category II of the American Laser Dentistry, University of São Paulo, Brazil and University of San Francisco, USA (1996)

Chairman for Argentina and Vice Regent for Latin America of the Academy of Dentistry International (ADI)

Director of Postgraduate Courses on “Lasers in Dentistry” in Argentina and abroad since 1995

Researcher and editor in International Publications in the Laser area

International Professor from diverse Universities in different countries