IC Level 1 - Essentials of Clinical Photography

The advent and maturation of digital photography and its associated workflows has increasingly become adopted in dentistry. Digital photography provides clinicians with a unique and powerful tool that can rapidly aid in diagnosis and treatment planning, enhance patient and interdisciplinary communication, serve as a medicolegal record, and facilitate documentation for educational or promotional uses. In order to maximize the benefits that digital photography can bring to one’s practice, it is incumbent on the clinician to become proficient and comfortable with operating digital photographic equipment. This course will provide a didactic overview of digital photography and its applications within restorative dentistry, as well as photographic setups, retraction methods, and methods for troubleshooting challenging clinical photographic scenarios.

Learning Objectives

At the completion of course, participants will be able to:

• Understand principles of digital photography, contemporary equipment options, and the advantages that this tool can have in your practice’s workflow.
• Discuss protocols for leveraging restorative digital documentation to facilitate improved interdisciplinary and patient communication to improve clinical outcomes
• Review how digital photography can serve as an adjunctive component of the medicolegal record of treatment, and promotion of one’s clinical achievements for educational or practice management purposes.

This course is presented as an interactive learning module. This course is part of the DS Academy's Dental Implant Curriculum. To view all courses within the curriculum, please click here.

Original publishing date: November 23, 2021
Re-release evaluation: November 23, 2024

AGD PACE Subject Code: 138 Dental Photography.