Aesthetic Dentistry Training – Photography

Aim

To equip practitioners with the necessary skills and knowledge for proficiency in dental photography.

Objectives

• Explain the purpose and advantages of photography in dentistry

• Identify the importance of photography consent and storage considerations

• Identify the main camera components and their accessories

• Become confident with the camera settings that should remain constant as well as those which require adjustment

• Understand what settings are best use for different dental situations, portraits, smile videos, retracted views and intramural/procedural shots

• Appreciate the importance of lighting and manipulating your light source

• Learn the standard view needed for basic procedure documentation as well as those needed for academic accreditation

• Understand polarising photography, shade matching and lab communication

• Studio and Portraiture photography

• Artistic photography

Prior to Face to Face

Registration to access the free online webinar and documents to get you prepared for the face-to-face session.

We are advise bringing your own camera set up for an enhanced learning experience. We will have spare set ups on the day for delegates who do not have access to their own.

We will also be available for advice prior to the face to face if delegates wish to purchase a set up before the big day.

On The Day

Registration

• Introduction

• Background on speakers

• Competition time

Why take pictures?

• Benefits of dental photography

• Consent process.

• Photo storage

• Practice implementation.

Let’s talk Cameras…

• Bodies

• Lens

• Flash systems; ring flash, twin flash, speed lights, strobes

• Flash modification

Understand photography terms…

• Exposure

• Aperture

• ISO

• White balance

• Shutter speed.

• ETTL vs Manual flash modes

• Metering and picture styles

Accessory equipment

• Occlusal & Buccal mirrors

• Contrastors

• Cheek retractors

• Lip retractors!

Live Demo with Model and Hands On Experience

• Step by step tutorial with a model to take the BACD/AACD accredited series of photos including and the camera and flash settings required for each shot.

• Portraiture

• Smile views

• Retracted views

• Contrasted views

• Occlusal photography

• Quadrant photography

• Polarising photography

Break/Lunch

• Asist delegates with their own personal camera set ups for the afternoon session.

• WEX photography Belfast photography store stall

Hands On Experience

• Each delegate will get one to one assistance and will be proficient in taking the series of photography’s required for academy accreditation and academic purposes.

Communication using Photography

• Patient communication with patient consent and patient letters,

• Treatment photography, consistent records, angles, positioning

• Lab work photography

• Polarising photography

• Lab communication

• Shade matching

• Photo editing

• Using social media

• Instagram photography

• Videography

Hands on creative photography

• Q&A