This clinical tip from CDOCS focuses on the orthodontic portion of your practice and the importance of quality photos to obtain the best results for your patients.
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Video transcript
"Hi, this is Shalin from CDOCS. Today's tip of the day is photography, and photography as it relates to your clear aligner submissions.
"It's essential that when you're not only submitting your case for the very first time but also when you're doing refinements, whether it's midcourse or if it's going to be at the end of your first iteration of real aligners, that type of refinement, all of those need photos.
"The photos are not just for you and your team to be able to reference on, but it's also for the digital ortho lab to understand what they're looking at in terms of the STL, as well as what's exactly happening with the clinical scenario.
"For example, if you had taken the bite of the STO [short-term orthodontic] and it showed that the anteriors were actually coupled when, in fact, your clinical intraoral photography shows that there is a class II discrepancy here, where there is no anterior contact, and there was, in fact, excessive overjet, this is exactly how the digital ortho lab will be able to catch that there is this disparity and make sure that they not only set up the case correctly, but then subsequent to that, they're going to end up creating the simulation and the staging that you deserve.
"Thank you so much. And don't forget always to strengthen that relationship between the orthodontic and restorative teams, and always refer by the age of 7."
