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Photography is powerful in dentistry, its numerous applications such as diagnosis, treatment planning, legal documentation, publishing and lecturing has made digital photography a standard of care in modern dental practices. Nowadays the DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) cameras are widely used in dentistry to take high definition macro images. Recently, smartphones have come a long way in digital photography due to recent technology development. The purpose of this lecture is to demonstrate the capacity of these devices to take high quality dental pictures. Those pictures are useful in different types of documentation and communication, in a feasible teachable and repeatable way, by everyone and for everyday practice.
Prof. Louis Hardan, former head of the restorative and esthetic department at Saint Joseph University Beirut-Lebanon (2013-2019), actually director of the master program since 2019 and coordinator of the prosthetic and esthetic master since 2021. He graduated dentistry in 1989 and continued his post-doctoral education at Saint Joseph University; he obtained a certificate for basic science in 1993, he completed his specialization in restorative and esthetic dentistry in 1995, and completed his PhD in oral biology and materials in 2009. He was an active member of the Lebanese Dental Association board (LDA) (2006-2009) and was assigned as a general secretary of the LDA in 2009.
At the present, he is a full professor at Saint Joseph University and owns a private practice in his home town Byblos. He is an honorary and active international Styleitaliano member and the scientific director of this group. He is the Country Chairperson for Lebanon of the European Society of Cosmetic Dentistry (ESCD) since 2020, ESCD certified member, ESCD board member and international affairs chairperson since 2021.
He is the inventor of Smile Lite MDP (Smile Line, Switzerland) a device to take high quality dental pictures with a mobile phone (Winner of the best of class technology award for 2017 in USA) and Posterior Misura (LM instrument) an instrument for direct posterior composites.
Prof. Hardan has many publications in international journals, chapters in international dental books and author of a book entitled: “Protocols for Mobile Dental Photography with auxiliary lighting” Quintessence Publishing 2020, and has given several international lectures and courses on esthetic, restorative dentistry and mobile dental photography