A tooth is a spectrum; a photograph is three numbers. Between the light that leaves the enamel and the color that reaches the screen, something is always lost. Knowing exactly what is lost is the beginning of reproducing it well....
Specular glare is the quiet saboteur of shade matching. Cross-polarization removes it—revealing the tooth's true color, translucency, and micro-texture with gallery-grade clarity....
A new in vitro study measured how faithfully flagship smartphones reproduce the geometry of the anterior smile against the DSLR gold standard. The answer is more flattering to the phone than tradition would allow, but the fine print matters. A study of fidelity, distortion, and...
Matching a single ceramic crown to its neighbors is one of dentistry's most demanding acts of perception. The camera, used well, turns guesswork into a repeatable art....
You composed the shot perfectly, nailed the exposure, and captured the shade. Then the lab receives an image that looks nothing like the tooth in the chair. Before you blame the camera, look at the screen you trusted. An uncalibrated monitor quietly corrupts everything you...