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The applications for dental photography are continually growing. While digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras may be used to provide outstanding clinical images, the use of smartphone cameras is becoming increasingly popular (in common with all types of photography).
Regardless of equipment, the main dental photography challenges relate to the limited amount of available light within the oral cavity, particularly when photographing posterior teeth.
Progressive developments in Smile-Line technology (St-Imier, Switzerland) are designed to overcome these exposure difficulties. The original Smite-Lite device (Optident, Ilkley, Yorkshire) was designed as a natural light source (colour temperature 5500K) to optimize shade-matching and to enable calibration of camera phones against a grey scale.
The latest Smile-Line innovation is Mobile Dental Photography (MDP) (Optident, Ilkley, Yorkshire), which is a continuous light source that is designed to provide a versatile range of lighting options, enabling higher-quality smartphone images and providing a stable platform that fits most mobile phones (width range 55–85 mm). The camera phone is easily positioned so that the lens is in the centre of the MDP unit and is secured using the hex key provided (Figure 1).2
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