Protocols for Mobile Dental Photography with Auxiliary Lighting

Louis Hardan

• Publisher: Quintessence Publishing Co, Inc
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781647240943
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Dentistry

Billions of photographs are taken worldwide each day, and most of them are captured with a smartphone. In the context of clinical dentistry, many clinicians use their smartphone to take clinical photographs for communication or documentation simply because they cannot operate or afford a professional camera. Author Louis Hardan understands too well how a poorly taken photograph can compromise the quality of dentistry delivered to the patient, which is why he launched the Mobile Dental Photography (MDP) project in 2012. He wanted to find a way to make documentation and communication easy and affordable to all dentists and laboratory technicians, including students. In this book he outlines how to use the smartphone camera with auxiliary lighting and accessories to take photographs for treatment planning, documentation and self-evaluation, communication with the patient and laboratory technician, tracking the evolution of treatment, as well as for publishing, lecturing, and insurance and medicolegal purposes. He also shows how to take artistic photographs to wow your followers on social media and effectively market your practice online. You really can get similar-quality images with a smartphone camera as with a DSLR camera; you just need to know how to use it. This book is the key.

Index

Page numbers followed by “f” denote figures.

A

Accessories

for birefringence photographs, 96, 96f

contrastors. See Contrastors.

diffusers. See Diffusers.

light, 36, 36f. See also Light.

mirrors, 29, 31, 31f, 74, 75f

polarizers. See Polarizers.

retractors. See Retractors.

Advertising, 10f, 10–11

Analog impressions, 108, 112f

Android smartphone, white balance adjustments on, 54–55, 55f

Anterior incisors, 70, 70f

Anterior photographs

applications of, 107, 107f–108f

description of, 29, 30f

intraoral, 67–72, 68f–72f

Anterior retractors, 57, 57f

Aperture, 25, 25f

Apps

description of, 18, 19f

for white balance setting on iPhones, 55, 56f

Artistic photographs

description of, 11, 11f

half-illuminated photograph, 86–89, 86f–89f

of lips, 90, 91f–92f

B

Barrel distortion, 58, 58f, 60, 60f

“Before and after” photographs, 11, 113f

Birefringence photographs

accessories for, 96, 96f

camera positioning for, 97, 97f

definition of, 95

polarizer filter for, 115f

results of, 97, 98f

tooth preparation for, 96, 96f

Bis-acryl material, 3, 4f

Bounced light, 36, 36f

Brochures, 10

Button technique, 40, 40f

C

Camera. See DSLR cameras; Smartphone camera.

Carious lesions, 4f, 5

Clear eyes, 93, 93f–94f

Color value, 40, 40f

Communication

dental videos for, 101

dentist–dental technician, 6

patient–dental technician, 5–6

photographs for, 5–6

Continuous-light softboxes, 84–85, 85f, 90, 91f, 103, 105f, 114f

Contrast, 88, 88f

Contrastors

anterior MDP uses of, 67, 69f

uses of, 32, 33f, 57, 57...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Author
• Foreword
• 01 Introduction
• 02 Why Document?
• 03 Advantages of Mobile Dental Photography
• 04 Specifications of a Smartphone Camera
• 05 Accessories Needed for MDP
• 06 Types of Light
• 07 Smile Lite MDP
• 08 Important Rules for MDP
• 09 How to Take Intraoral Photographs with MDP
• 10 How to Take Extraoral Photographs with MDP
• 11 Mobile Dental Video
• 12 Applications of MDP
• Epilogue
• Index