Photographic Methods of the Face in Clinical Practice and the Concept of Simultaneous Frontal, Angular and Lateral Photographs

Abstract

Together with a diversification of the clinical dental needs of patients, there has been a tendency for simultaneous increases in the extent of the clinician's responsibilities in terms of both quality and quantity. In the field of clinical photography, for cases that had been handled with simple intraoral photographs in normal treatment, recently pictures are often taken of the face and lips including the teeth. In particular there has been a gradual increase in the need for facial photographs, and there has been a continual increase in the demand for pictures that provide a greater amount of information than has been acquired with conventional methods.
The actual clinical treatment of gnathology, which includes responsibility for the entire oral cavity, must be carried out by dealing with the acquisition of a variety of information associated with the patient's face. Consequently, acquisition of objective data requires high quality facial photographic methods. I will introduce a facial photographic method I devised that can simultaneously photograph the frontal, angular and lateral face of patients.