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Want to upgrade your practice with dental photography but unsure where to start? I got early adopter and dental photography legend Dr Alessandro Devigus (the main man behind dentist.camera Instagram page) to share with us his fundamentals to make dental photography routine in for your clinical documentation. https://youtu.be/6WtCv9nb7HA Check out this full episode on YouTube Need to Read it? Check out the Full Episode Transcript below! Protrusive Dental pearl: AACD Dental photography guide, have this document at hand when start taking dental photographs because it will help you to remember your settings before they eventually become second nature. AACD_2013_Photo_Guide And also be sure to check this video tutorial I made on how to take perfect Occlusal Dental Photographs (the trickiest shot!) https://youtu.be/PGTtZJnp9Pk “Every picture you didn't take is a missed one...” - Dr Alessandro Devigus In this episode we talked about: Setting up the camera 12:37The basic of taking photographs 14:19Importance of magnification ratio on lens 17:48Selection of materials ie mirrors and retractors 21:38Making your own signatures on photography 26:39Storing and Organizing photos 30:42 As promised, here are the basic dental photography camera settings by Dr Alessandro Devigus: Check out Dr Alessandro Devigus’ instagram page, the dentist.camera, to learn more about cameras. If you enjoyed this episode, you may also enjoy the ‘Which Dental Camera Should I Buy’? also with Dr Alessandro. Click below for full episode transcript:  Opening Snippet: So once you buy the camera, the second barrier I find Dentists have in terms of actually picking up and using it is because they've never devoted the time to actually sit down and learn what is the aperture? What is ISO? Why is this relevant? And then what they do is they just haphazardly put it on auto and they take photos and they get unpredictable inconsistent results, they get frustrated... Jaz's Introduction: When I qualified as a dentist, and I got my first ever paycheck, the first thing I did was buy a camera like yes, it was used because I need save money. But it was the first purchase because I knew I was taught by some mentors that to take good dental photographs is so so important to your career development. And I cannot echo this enough. So today I'm joined by Dr. Alessandro Devigus, the chap who owns dentist camera Instagram page, he's a world leading expert on dental photography. And we're going to cover the basic settings, how to get consistency and photos, and all the best tips to help you get started in dental photography. So if you're not already taking photos, you hopefully will be by the end of this episode, feeling more confident to start picking up the camera and taking more shots and becoming more consistent and a better dental photographer. Again, this is another episode as part of the back to basics series of August and this has been incredibly popular. I've been amazed at the comments, had one dentist, let's have a look on the previous episodes, I had Brendon Parker comment on the YouTube channel saying "Hey, Jaz just found this series and love it. I wish I had this 20 years ago." And honestly I didn't know the impact of such a back to basic series would have been you know, it's amazing. And thanks so much for for joining me in these episodes. I hope you find the real value from them. Now we're going to give you the Protrusive Dental pearl. So if you're new to the podcast, I give you a Protrusive Dental pearl in every main episode, and then we'll join the main interview with Dr. Alessandro Devigus. So the Protrusive Dental pearl I have for you is that on the comments below in YouTube or on the website protrusive.co.uk under this episode, I will have you ready to download the AACD Dental photography guide and what this is, and I found this really useful back in 2013 when I qualified the first purchase I made was it was...