title: Digital dental photography. Part 7: extra-oral set-ups.
abstract: This part of our series specifically addresses extra-oral dental photography consisting of portraiture and dental laboratory pictures. Portraiture, which is achieved using three types of illumination, natural daylight, bi-lateral camera mounted flashes (as for intra-oral images) or studio flashes, can be further divided into full face and dento-facial compositions. These are necessary for various dental disciples including evaluation of aesthetics, orthodontics and oral surgery facial profile assessment. Dental laboratory photography includes documentation of plaster casts and indirect prostheses.
authors: The Ridgeway Dental Surgery, North Harrow, Middlesex, HA2 7DF. iahmadbds@aol.com
authors: Irfan
authors: I
authors: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D003792:Dental Records; D003812:Dentist-Patient Relations; D004282:Documentation; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006801:Humans; D007754:Laboratories, Dental; D008029:Lighting / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D003765:Models, Dental; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D010550:Personal Space; D023861:Photography, Dental / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D011173:Portraits as Topic; D013472:Sunlight