title: Dentist-technician collaboration in the digital age: enhancing outcomes through photography, teamwork, and technology.
abstract: The cornerstone of a strong and successful dentist-technician relationship is communication. High-level collaboration across distances requires modern technology to communicate expectations, potential outcomes, and limitations. Carefully calibrated digital photography is an essential element in this inherently artistic process. This ensures a system of checks and balances to minimize the potential for miscommunication and remakes. Forthcoming technologies will allow dentist-technician teams to reach ever-greater levels of collaboration.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, Division of Restorative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Todd R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Schoenbaum
authors.forename: Yi-Yuan
authors.initials: YY
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D057189:Checklist; D003142:Communication; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017267:Dental Prosthesis Design; D003800:Dental Technicians; D003815:Dentists; D034742:Electronic Mail; D004955:Esthetics, Dental; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D010348:Patient Care Team; D023861:Photography, Dental / Q000379:methods; D017797:Prosthesis Coloring; D012984:Software; D013674:Technology, Dental; D016896:Treatment Outcome