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Dental Radiology

Radiation History

QuestionAnswer
Who discovered x-rays? William Roentgen
Who exposed the first radiograph in the United States of a live patient? Edmund Kells
Who developed the first dental x-ray tube? William Coollidge
What years were x-rays discovered? 1895
What is radiation? A form of energy carried by waves or a stream of particles
What is radiography? The art and science of making radiographs by the exposure of film to x-rays
What is the importance of dental images (radiographs)? Dental images enable the dental professional to identify many conditions that may otherwise go undetected and to see conditions that cannot be identified clinically
What is an image? A picture of likeness of an object
From the year _____ to _____, dental x-ray packets consisted of glass photographic plates or film cut into small pieces and hand wrapped in black paper and rubber? 1896 to 1913
Who introduced the paralleling technique? Edmund Kells
Who is the "father of modern dental radiography"? Gordon Fitzgerald
Who is to be considered the "father of panoramic radiography"? Yjro Paatero
A radiograph is a ___-dimensional representation of a ___-dimensional object? 2 and 3
Who built the first vacuum tube? Heinrich Geissler
Johann Wilhelm Hittorf, used the vacuum tube to study what? Fluorescence
W. J. Morton made the first dental radiograph of what? Skull
What year was the first dental x-ray machine? 1923
What company introduced the first variable-kilo-voltage dental x-ray machine? General Electric
Who introduced the bite-wing technique? H.R. Raper
What year was the first dental text? 1913
In 1999, ___________________ became a specialty in dentistry? Oral and maxillofacial radiology
The symbol ___ is used in mathematics to represent the unknown? X
Who wrote the first paper on the danger of x-radiation? William Rollins
Howard Raper established the first what for dental students? Course of radiography
Eastman Kodak Company manufactured the first ___ in 1913? Prewrapped intraoral films
Define dental radiograph? A photographic image produced on film by the passage of x-rays through teeth and related structures
What is a image receptor? A recording medium; examples include x-ray film, phosphor plate, or digital sensor
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