An Introduction to Essential Dental Photography in Daily Practice - Free Version by Dr. Shadi S. Samawi - HTML preview

LIGHTING

Extra-Oral

Photographs

With Twin-Flash

It is recommended that the patient stands a couple of feet in front of a plain,

dark or white-colored wall or background when taking all extra-oral shots.

LIGHTING This is to ensure maximum clarity of facial features and outlines without the

presence of distracting objects in the background.

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• The background used for taking

photographic records should be

either a solid-white background (or a

back-lit light-box), or a solid-dark color

such as Dark Blue. Taking extra-oral

photos with the patient sitting on the

dental chair or with multiple

distracting objects in the background

does not give a professional end-

result and should be avoided.

• The clinician’s positioning for these

photos would be standing a few feet

away from the patient, until the head

and neck of the subject fill the frame,

and at the same eye level if possible.

Younger and shorter patients can

stand on a special stand to get them

to reach a suitable height if needed,

or the clinician can sit on a chair to get

to their eye level.

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Reference Plane 4

BASEPLANE FOR CRANIOFACIAL SPATIAL ORIENTATION

BASELINE Horizontal Reference Line [OPERATOR-GUIDED POSITION]

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Intra-Oral

Photographs

With Twin-Flash

Intra-oral photographs require more attention to detail to

produce good results. For these shots, the use of the

LIGHTING special photographic retractors and dental mirrors will be

required, and ideally with help from a dental assistant.

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