Dental Photography in Practice
Dental Photography in Practice
Peter Gordon LDSRCS(Eng) MFGDP(UK)
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I have deliberately explained the development of the single lens reflex as most of today's readers and certainly tomorrow's will have had no experience of using film, and the associated costs. I make no apology for my emphasis on producing repetitive, same size same place images as my film background promotes a “get it right first time” doctrine. By the time I had purchased a cassette of film, maximum 36 shots, paid for processing, mounted my teaching slides in glass for projection, each image cost around one pound sterling. The fact that a good camera in 1956 cost 10% of the value of my parents North London semi-detached house (£2,500.00 then, £350,000.00 today) may also raise a few eyebrows. Working with colour slide film there is no leeway or ability to manipulate the final image. Figures 8a and b in the introduction are good examples of consistency using 35 mm film. After 30 years in private practice, I then spent 12 working years for the organisation monitoring UK NHS dentistry. In fact, I introduced using cameras into that organisation. I must thank most sincerely my wife Andrea for putting up with bits of equipment all over the place and me either looking down an eyepiece or glued to the PC.
Peter Gordon
p.d.gordon@btconnect.com
June 2020
Acknowledgements
I wrote my first textbook on Dental Photography with a colleague, Dr Phil Wander, in 1987. In 1998, I left practice to work for what was then “The Dental Reference Service” until the “Care Quality Commission (CQC)” took over that role in 2011. It is obvious from the above dates that when I was commissioned to write a book on “Dental Photography”, I had no direct access to patients or surgeries.
I am lost for words as to how to thank my younger colleagues for their support both with allowing access to surgeries, modeling, taking images, etc. I am equally grateful to three of my grandchildren, Abbie and Sammy Hass, and Jamie Simon who ran the risk of being placed in front of a camera every time they paid a visit.
Acknowledgment of images are given in the text as they arise and if not individually acknowledged, the images will have been taken by the author.
Four colleagues deserve special mention, Dr Mahul Patel who photographed Dr Diana Bennett and Dr Neel Jaiswal who photographed his wife Dr Kamal Mistry.
Further thanks are due to Dr Souphiyeh Samizadeh and Dr Alexandra Day for their help with facial esthetics.
Thanks are due to Tony Knight of Knight Dental Design for access to his “studio” and generous loan of models and to Bryan Matthews of “Tusk Dental Laboratories” for both loan of models and images.
Further thanks are due to Olympus UK for the loan of a camera and flash system and Canon UK for the loan of the M50 mirrorless body 250D and 800D DSLR.
Thanks to the Royal Free Trust and Barts Trust for their hospital protocol on the use of mobile phones.
I am very grateful to Dr Aws Alani BDS, MFDS MSc FDSRCS for access to his LLM Thesis submitted in 2017 to Cardiff University entitled, “Digital Media and the Dental Patient: A legal perspective”. Last but by no means least, my sincere thanks to Harsha Madan, and her team at JP Medical Publishers for all the hard work and support from the beginning. Literally as the last i was dotted and t's crossed on the final proof, Harsha left on maternity leave, I send my congratulations on the safe arrival of her son and wish her and family well for the future.
Contacts and further reading
Dental Photography: Wander and Gordon BDJ 1987
Digital Dental Photography “ A clinicians guide:” Steve Ratcliff DDS
Dental Photography: Krzysztof Chmielewski: Quintessence Publishing
Smile Design A Patient's Guide Dr Elliot Mechanic BSc DDS EC Dental Solutions Inc
Smile Transformations: Knight Dental Design
Guidelines on Social Media: General Dental Council
Information Commissioner's Office, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device)
“Riskwise” Dental Protection Issue 17 January 2018. “The Device in your pocket” Dr Philip Johnstone.
Aesthetic & Restorative Dentistry: Material Selection & Technique Douglas A Terry and Willi Geller
Esthetic Dentistry A Patient's Guide Dr Elliot Mechanic BSc DDS
Photographic Documentation & Evaluation in Cosmetic Dentistry American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
Microscopic Dentistry A Practical Guide by Carl Zeiss is recommended.
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Dental photography and COVID-19
The current pandemic has thrown routine medical and dental treatment into turmoil, and those involved in the 1980s will remember how HIV affected practice protocol. With hindsight the “nuisance” at the time of wearing gloves and masks seems almost laughable today.
This book was finalised through the current COVID-19 pandemic which gave rise to the following considerations.
USING DSLR CAMERAS
Most dental photography occurs in routine practice. These cameras and accessories cannot be sterilised and the current protocol if the operator is using the camera, is to remove gloves, use camera, wash hands and re-glove.
ROUTINE PRACTICE WITH DSLR
Before any routine practice is carried out, it is assumed that some form of triage has been undertaken. Only after risk assessing each patient individually, treatment can be carried out in a reasonably normal manner. In the UK “DenScreen” offers training courses, triage tools and testing equipment to help dentistry get back to routine practice. Their antibody pin-prick test is 99% accurate, giving a result in 10 minutes. The results of the triage and test add empirical evidence to enhance risk assessments, enabling practices to resume routine dentistry. Henry Schein also offer COVID-19 advice.
In this environment, the camera can safely be used as earlier. One can stretch cling film tightly over a standard ring flash and lens without reducing image quality. Probably this will give the patient a greater sense of security rather than being a necessary precaution ().
and show that the film has no deleterious effect on the image. The text describes a method of setting up the camera so that it and flash just need turning “on” and the only physical change required is setting the field of view.
If a camera system that can be disinfected is required, there are three systems described in Chapter 5 that would fulfil these criteria.
The author wishes to point out that he has no financial interest in any product mentioned in the text.