Digital Photography for Teeth, Portraits and Shade Communication Photoshop for Smile Design and Patient Communication

Date: September 26-27, 2014, Friday and Saturday Time: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm Area of Focus: Esthetics Units: 14 Fee: $950 To Register, Call 310.825.6238 or E-mail our Registrar

In this two day lecture-workshop, you will learn the use of digital photography for excellent intra-oral dental images, learn techniques for simple high quality portraits in a dental office and professional studio portraits and learn photography for shade communication. Secondly, the course will show how to use Photoshop to do a simple and more complex digital diagnosis and digital smile design. This course will be covered in a lecture and demonstration format. The participants will then divide up into teams and take the demonstrated dental images on each other and portraits with a professional model. Photographic equipment will be supplied. The participants will need to bring a laptop computer configured with Photoshop.

Learning Objectives
Fundamental principles of general photography and how to operate a digital SLR camera Macro-photography (close-up photography) used in documenting a case involving esthetic dental restorations How to take images for Photoshop shade analysis Basics of excellent Portrait photography How to use dental photography to diagnose and treatment plan esthetic dental restorations Digital smile analysis and design techniques using photoshop

Instructor
Edward A. McLaren, DDS, MDC Director, UCLA Center for Esthetic Dentistry Professor, Division of Restorative Dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry