Rodrigues Ottolengui (March 15, 1861 – July 11, 1937) was an American writer and dentist of Sephardic descent.
[1] Born in Charleston, South Carolina, he moved to New York City, where he would spend most of his adult life, in 1877.
[2] He was the editor of Items of Interest: A Monthly Magazine of Dental Art, Science, and Literature for thirty-five years, which he continued to edit after retiring from dentistry; he compiled Table Talks on Dentistry, drawing from articles in Items of Interest.
A dental pioneer, Ottolengui was one of the first to use X-rays and was a specialist in orthodontics and root canal therapy.
In addition to his work in dentistry, Ottolengui is remembered as an early exponent of detective fiction, with four novels and a short story collection published during the 1890s.