title: Making darkness visible: the discovery of X-ray and its introduction to dentistry.
abstract: Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen's discovery of the X-ray one century ago has been ranked in importance with the discovery and development of anesthesia and the discovery of microorganisms and their role in disease. Roentgen's scientific devotion and the persistence of C. Edmund Kells, who took Roentgen's discovery and applied it to dentistry, had a great impact on how dentists practice today.
authors.affiliation: Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee 53233, USA.
authors.forename: P H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Jacobsohn
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Fedran
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D011859:Radiography / Q000266:history*; D011861:Radiography, Dental / Q000266:history*; D014481:United States