Top 5 Tips for Dental Photography by Dr Lydia Sharples

Photography is your best friend when it comes to clear aligner cases. It’s essential for planning and monitoring cases. Photos form a key part of patient records so is important from a medico-legal point of view. Photos can also hugely help with communicating with your patients, whether you use progress photos to show a patient how far they’ve come, or before and after photos to help case conversion. Photography can give patients confidence in your ability to transform their smiles and address their specific concerns, so it’s worth being able to take high-quality, reproducible photographs. Here are my 5 top tips:

1. Consent 

Consent is essential in every part of clinical dentistry and it’s no different when it comes to photography.