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Table of Contents

PART I THE BASICS Click the !"to directly go to the relevant page

01 Dental Photography Fundamentals

• Clinical Significance ➠

• The Exposure Triangle ➠

• White Balance and Color Temperature ➠

02 Equipment & Accessories

• The Camera ➠

• The Macro Lens ➠

• Flash Lighting ➠

• Photographic Accessories ➠

03 Clinical Photographic Technique

• Clinical Photographic Requirements & Key Settings ➠

• The Photographic Set (Dental Portfolio) ➠

• Extra-Oral Photographs ➠

• Intra-Oral Photographs ➠

• The 5 Principles of Professional Clinical Photography ➠

• Dr. Shadi Samawi’s Online Clinical Dental Photography Masterclass © ➠

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01 DENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY FUNDAMENTALS © Shadi Samawi | 2024. All Rights Reserved.

Clinical Significance Of Dental Photography

Traditional Dental Records have always included three main types

of records:

1. Study models (or digitized dental scans). 2. Radiographs; normally a Panoramic view (OPG) and/or a Lateral

Cephalometric view.

3. Extra and intra oral clinical photographs.

Each of these types of records provides certain diagnostic

information to the clinician to aid him/her in diagnosing and

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case. More recently, other types of digital records have come into

play such as CBCTs, facial and Intra-oral scans. Although all of

these types of records are important - some indeed, essential - for

the proper diagnosis and planning of our treatment, the push for

consistent clinical photographic record-taking for ALL dental

specialties has only been emphasized relatively recently, with the

rise of digital workflows. Strangely enough, dental photography

used to be neglected by many clinicians - up until maybe a decade

ago.

The Main Benefits of Clinical Photography

© Shadi Samawi Times have certainly changed. Now, with more and more

emphasis from the dental community as a whole on the

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achievement of balanced facial harmony and smile esthetics for Photographic Exposure: What Controls it? our patients - in addition to the traditional orthodontic goals of a

well-aligned and functional dentition - the need for proper clinical The Exposure Triangle :: photographic records of the dental patient has become even more Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO essential for proper treatment-planning and follow-up.

Clinical photographs allow the clinician to carefully study the When these three elements are combined, they represent a given

existing patient's soft-tissue patterns during the treatment planning exposure value (EV) for a given setting. stage. We can assess lip morphology and tonicity, the smile arc and Any change in any one of the three elements will have a

smile esthetics from various angles. We can also assess the degree measurable and specific impact on how the remaining two

of incisal show upon smiling, therefore allowing us to study the elements react to expose the film frame or image sensor and how

patient in a so called “social” setting, and all without the patient the image ultimately looks. White Balance (Color Balance) can be ever being present. Such information greatly aids the orthodontist considered a fourth basis for an accurate clinical photo as it forms

in formulating the best possible treatment plan for each patient, the basis for accurate tooth shade and color representation. and monitoring them in subsequent follow-ups. In addition,

photography has a very important role in shade/form communication with dental labs that enables technicians to produce quality work mimicking each patient’s individual dental

characteristics. This importance has grown considerably with the

spread of Digital Smile Design concepts and software, and 2D-3D © Shadi Samawi integration, which require high quality, professional photographs

for best results and workflow.

Needless to say, there has always been the need for photographic

records for purposes of research and publication, and for lecturing

and teaching presentations. In addition, the growing importance

and need for such records for medico-legal reasons cannot be The Exposure Triangle (& White Balance) over-emphasized.

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Inter-relationships of the Exposure Triangle

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Further Explanations in The Full Version eBook - See End of This eBook For Details.

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