06/11/2025 – Dental Photography

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Date: 06/11/2025

Start Time: 18:00

Completion Time: 3 Hours

Venue: NIMDTA, 42 Beechill Road, Belfast, BT8 7RL

Speakers: Gary O’Neill

Course Description

Dental photography workshop. Please bring along your camera if you have one, not essential.

This is a scope of practice development opportunity for dental nurses. Part 2 will take place on 12/03/2026 to review your portfolio.

Course Aims

  • To equip dental professionals with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to capture high-quality, standardised clinical photographs for diagnosis, treatment planning, patient communication, medico-legal documentation, and practice marketing.

Course Objectives

  • Identify the essential equipment required for clinical dental photography.
  • Set up and adjust DSLR or mirrorless cameras for optimal intraoral and extraoral images.
  • Apply standardised photography protocols to ensure consistency across cases.
  • Position patients, mirrors, and retractors effectively to capture all required views.
  • Manage common technical challenges such as glare, fogging, and focus errors.
  • Understand and apply the principles of white balance, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
  • Organise, edit, and store images securely and ethically in compliance with GDPR.
  • Use photographs effectively for patient communication, treatment planning, and marketing.

Course Learning Content

  • part 1 | PRE SHOOT CONSIDERATIONS
  • part 2 | EQUIPMENT AND LIGHTING
  • part 3 | CAMERA SETTINGS
  • part 4 | ACCESSORY EQUIPMENT
  • part 5 | CLINICAL SHOOTING GUIDE
  • part 6 | POLARISING PHOTOGRAPHY
  • part 7 | LAB COMMUNICATION
  • part 8 | CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
  • part 9 | PHOTO PROCESSING

GDC Development Outcomes

  • A B C D

Dentist Tickets

£77.00
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DCP / Other Ticket

£61.00