Dental Radiography History

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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

  • Professor at Wuerzburg University in Germany

  • Discovered x rays during 1895

  • He observed a fluorescent glow of crystals on a table near his tube. This tube consisted of a glass envelope bulb with positive and negative electrodes encapsulated in it

  • In the late 1895, one of Roentgen’s first experiments was a film of this wife, Bertha

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Heinrich Geissler

  • Built the 1st vacuum tube, a sealed glass tube from which most of air had been evacuated (Geissler tube)

  • Hittorf-Crookes tube, the Lenard tube: modified version of Geissler tube

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Johann Wilhelm Hittorf

  • German physicist that used the vacuum tube to study fluorescence

  • In 1870, he discovered CATHODE RAYS: a greenish fluorescence discharge

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William Crookes

  • An english chemist who redesigned the vacuum tube and discovered that cathode rays were streams of charged particles during late 1870s

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Philip Lenard

  • He discovered that cathode rays could penetrate a thin window of aluminum foil built into the walls of the glass tubes and cause fluorescent screens to glow

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Otto Walkhoff

  • German dentist who made the 1st dental radiograph

  • He placed a glass photographic plate wrapped in black paper and rubber in his mouth and submitted himself to 25 minutes of x ray exposure

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W.J. Morton

  • Made the 1st dental radiograph in the United States using a skull

  • He also lectured on the usefulness of x rays in dental practice and made the 1st whole body radiography using a 3 Ă— 6 ft sheet of film

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C. Edmund Kells

  • A New Orleans dentist, is credited with the 1st practical use of radiographs in dentistry in 1896

  • Exposed the 1st dental radiograph in the United States using a living person

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William H. Rollins

  • Boston dentist who developed the 1st dental x ray unit

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Frank Van Woert

  • A dentist from New York City, was the 1st to use film in intraoral radiography

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Howard Riley Raper

  • Indiana University professor, established the 1st college course in radiography for dental students

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