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The Ritter Corporation was founded in 1887 by Frank Ritter, a successful German cabinet maker in Rochester, New York, when he expanded his furniture-making company with a new dental chair product. The company introduced additional innovations to dental products, including important improvements to the dental chair. One of their greatest contributions to the dental profession was the introduction in 1920 of the Model A Dental X-Ray. This new improved tool gave the dental profession its most efficient instrument for diagnosing cases correctly. In order to adapt the machine for use with the various voltages and frequencies of the time, two separate groups of transformers were used. Both patient and operator had to stay further than 12 inches from the high voltage wire which ran outside the arm from the transformer cabinet to the x-ray head. Perfected, and with the earlier limitations removed, the safer and more accurate Ritter Model B Shock Proof X-Ray was developed in the 1930s. It replaced earlier guesswork with an exact radiographic technique. The flexible and easy to adjust x-ray head contributed immensely toward the efficiency and simplicity of operations. Standardizing techniques and fixed factors insured uniform radiographs of correct details and density. Utilizing a new type of straight line focus tube and heavy-duty transformer, the greater output of x-ray energy available made possible not only intra and extra-oral examinations, but also enabled collaborative diagnosis with physicians pertaining to any bony structure of the body. Radiographs up to 14 x 17 inches were possible. The Ritter Dental Company was proud of the fact that the dental profession had so wholeheartedly excepted the contribution which had been given them in the Ritter Model B Shock Proof X-Ray. This model was eventually replaced by the Model D in the 1950s . It was the last of the Ritter oil filled x-ray heads and the end of the Shock Proof X-Ray series. Thousands of dentists throughout the world made their diagnosis more accurate and complete through the use of these x-ray units.
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Identifier
8FC370BA-C051-497E-A9EB-335950678560 2003-1-2634
Subject
Dental equipment & supplies Dentistry X-rays--Equipment and supplies (LCSH)
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