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A Standardized Approach to Extra-Oral and Intra-Oral Digital Photography
Published on: July 22, 2022
Intraoral camera helps predict and prevent tooth loss
Abstract:
The video exam has proven to be a most effective means of re-establishing trust between patient and dentist by making the patient a co-diagnostician. In fact, it is not uncommon for patients to stop the diagnosis and ask specific questions about what they see. They can begin to diagnose pathology even before the dentist mentions it. A major benefit to the dentist is that invariably the exam reveals conditions not seen with typical clinical exams even using magnification loops. Although the intraoral camera has been around for more than a decade, its benefit during the video exam is more important now than ever before (8, 9). Every new patient and all patients of record should have the benefit of a video exam, as well as the dentist.
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