…with your cell phone
You would be surprised how often we get emails from patients asking about this or that. Inevitably we ask them to send in a picture of what they see and inevitably those pictures are blurry.
Cell phones take great intra-oral (tooth) pictures — they have a very small sensor and hence a small aperture to create a deep depth of field (everything stays in focus) and they have the flash very close to the lens. You don’t need an expensive macro photograph rig, but you do need to set up your phone properly.
Open up you camera app.
Press the shutter button to start the timer. Make sure the phone is steady and that you are pulling away cheeks/tongue/etc so that the subject of your shot is visible.
