When a worn, collapsed bite is rebuilt, the jaw is opened by millimeters that ripple outward into the whole lower face. For decades, clinicians could plan that change precisely but could only judge the result by eye. A new clinical report shows facial stereophotogrammetry —...
Almost every clinical photograph of a smile is a single, held instant - the posed, static frame we ask the patient to freeze into. But a real smile is not a pose; it is a movement, a brief and asymmetric event that begins at repose...
For a single crown, an intraoral scanner is enough. For a full arch of implants, the errors of scanning add up across the span until the bridge no longer fits the bone it was built for. Photogrammetry answers with a different discipline entirely: it does...