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The practice of dentistry involves preventing, diagnosing, and treating oral disease, as well as correcting deformities of the jaws, teeth, and oral cavity.
In 1896, American dentist Charles Edmund Kells introduced X-ray technology to the field of dentistry, which enabled a new era of accurate diagnosis for dental ailments.1
While the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays in 1895, it was Kells who pioneered their application within dental practice shortly thereafter.213