Course Information
Date: 16/10/2026
Start Time: 09:30
Completion Time: 3 Hours
Venue: Dunadry Hotel, 2 Islandreagh Dr, Antrim BT41 2HA
Speakers: Gary O’Neill
Course Description
Dental photography workshop. Please bring along your camera if you have one, not essential.
This is also scope of practice development opportunity for dental nurses.
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
Resources
Dietary Requirements
Please advise the Dental Continuing Education Team dentalcourses.nimdta@hscni.net if you have any dietary requirements.
DCP/Other ticket
£62.00