Standardised photography is the least glamorous part of the process and among the most reliable predictors of how the case will turn out.
Standardised means comparable
Same angles, same distance, same lighting, same magnification, every time. That consistency is what allows a photograph taken today to be meaningfully compared with one taken in three years.
Without it you have a collection of pictures rather than a record, and no ability to demonstrate what has changed.
The ceramist works from these
The technician never meets you. Everything about translucency, internal characterisation, surface texture and the colour of the underlying tooth reaches them photographically.
A poor photographic series is among the commonest reasons restorations are rejected at try-in and remade. The ceramist was working from insufficient information.
It changes what we can see
A photograph on a large screen reveals asymmetries, proportion problems and gum level discrepancies that are genuinely difficult to perceive in the mouth at conversational distance.
Diagnosis improves simply by looking at the case outside the clinical environment.
And it is how we audit ourselves
Reviewing a case at five years against the photographs from the day it was finished is uncomfortable and it is the only honest way to evaluate your own work.
Memory is selective and preserves the good cases. Photographs do not.
Expect a full photographic series as standard, and expect to receive a copy. A practice that photographs everything has chosen to be able to see its own mistakes.
For an individual assessment of your case, you can request a consultation at our Bogotá practice.
