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JIDAM · Vol 6, Issue 2 · April–June 2019
Review Article

Dental Photography – An Image to Improve the Face of Dental Practice

Dr. Vidyaa Hari Iyer
General Dental Practitioner, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Vol 6 · Issue 2 · 2019 DOI: 10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02 🔓 Open Access 📅 2019
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📝Abstract

A picture is worth a thousand words. DSLR cameras give us the ability to store digital negatives of every mobile phones are worst for dental photography. The DSLR camera has a huge dynamic range and is capable of detecting and recording true colours at appropriate three most important camera settings are the aperture, shutter speed and ISO – together called the Exposure triangle. The camera used for professional dental photography should record distortion free images. The mobile phone camera has image processors and sensors which are inferior to DSLR cameras and hence are unable to detect and record true colours of an image. Photography has always been an integral part of dentistry and its application in dental practice is simple, fast, and extremely useful in documenting procedures of work, patient education, and pursuing clinical investigations, clinical case discussions with to the dentists and patients. This article highlights the importance of dental digital photography with DSLR camera in today's world of interdisciplinary dentistry and medicolegal cases.

KEYWORDS: Legal documentation, clinical photography, exposure triangle.

🔖How to Cite
Vidyaa Hari Iyer. Dental photography – an image to improve the face of dental practice. J Indian Dent Assoc Madras. 2019;6(2):52-57. DOI: 10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02
Vidyaa Hari Iyer. (2019). Dental photography – an image to improve the face of dental practice. Journal of Indian Dental Association Madras, 6(2), 52-57. https://doi.org/10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02
Vidyaa Hari Iyer. "Dental photography – an image to improve the face of dental practice." Journal of Indian Dental Association Madras, vol. 6, no. 2, 2019, pp. 52-57. DOI: 10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02.
Vidyaa Hari Iyer. Dental photography – an image to improve the face of dental practice. J Indian Dent Assoc Madras. 2019;6(2):52-57. doi:10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02
Vidyaa Hari Iyer. "Dental photography – an image to improve the face of dental practice." Journal of Indian Dental Association Madras 6, no. 2 (2019): 52-57. https://doi.org/10.37841/jidam_2019_V6_I2_02.
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