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06/11/2025 – Dental Photography
Posted in Dental Courses, Events and Simulation
Course Information
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
DCP / Other Ticket
£61.00