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Intraoral Photography with a $299 Camera
Author(s):
Richard Erickson, MS, DDS
Date Added:
1/1/2006
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Summary:
This is the article I alluded to in the last issue in which we are going to show you how to take excellent intraoral photographs with a simple $300 off-the-shelf camera! Saving cosmetic images of teeth or portraits of patients within practice management software's program will degrade the image to the point where future prints or seminar uses are required, the image will be unusable. This is because the practice software compresses the image to the smallest possible size to save storage space and in doing so, the resolution with which the original image was made is forever lost.
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