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Abstract
This paper is an overview of dental digital asset man-
agement, discussing the processes of downloading,
browsing, organizing, categorizing, rating, keyword us-
age, exporting, and backing up digital assets, all utilizing
Adobe’s Photoshop Lightroom software. Future articles
will discuss the technical “how-to” aspects of the software.
INTRODUCTION
Photography in dentistry has increased dramatically over the past ten years, especially
Dental photography is used for documenting clinical cases, patient education, dental
been written about camera selection, clinical techniques, and implementing dental
management (DAM) required after the images are captured utilizing Adobe’s Photo-
Adobe Photoshop
Lightroom
And It’s Application
In Dentistry
AN OVERVIEW OF A DIGITAL DENTAL WORKFLOW
BY STEVEN H. GOLDSTEIN, DDS

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DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT
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A doctor may want to email images of anterior veneer restorations captured during a try-in to their
THE DILEMMA
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Software bundled with many digital cameras is limited in features offered, and most do not allow

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Even worse is trying to use proprietary den-
tal management software (Dentrix, Softdent,
Dental Mac, etc) with images captured from
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ware packages do not function as browsers or
(such as TIFF and RAW), nor will they allow the
thousands of images into dental management
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plant supported restorations; the doctor would
have to recall the names of every patient treat-
ed with a single tooth implant! This would be a
Software packages such as Adobe Photoshop
for image editing and were not designed for
great for creating unique layered images with
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pensive and have a steep learning curve, which
is too time consuming for most dental practition-
ers to undertake; plus the doctor would still re-
programs are similar in the fact they are both
browsers and image editing software in a single
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room over Apple’s Aperture, is that Lightroom
works on both Apple and PC platforms, where-
as Apple’s Aperture only works with Apple com-
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shops to dentists I must use software that applies
Adobe®
Photoshop®
Lightroom®
Lightroom is a professional photography software package with features appealing to the most dis-
LIGHTROOM IS THIS AUTHOR’S SOFTWARE OF CHOICE FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:
LIGHTROOM OFFERS THE DENTAL PROFESSIONAL THE ABILITY TO:
does not physically import
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LIGHTROOM INTERFACE
The interface is divided into three main panels; The left panel shows the hard drive (where all the images
particular patient folder in the left panel is selected, the main panel displays all of the images in that
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LIGHTROOM MODULE PICKER
IMPORT AND
ORGANIZE
IMAGE
MANIPULATION
GPS
COORDINATES
OUTPUT
IMAGES
Library | Develop | Map | Book | Slideshow | Print | Web
DENTAL DIGITAL WORKFLOW
1. Importing Images
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2. Selecting the “best” images

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3. Keywording
A huge challenge in managing numer-
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ple, an image depicting a single tooth implant may have the following
4. Metadata
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time information, camera settings,
camera make and model, shutter
speed, aperture, lens information,
ISO settings, and many other pa-
the user to edit some of the metadata as well as search for partic-
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clude the user’s name, contact information, copyright status, labels,
third party; they are now tagged with the owner’s detailed contact
EXIF metadata
DEVELOP
The develop module allows the user to modify the image non-destruc-
made to an image are global corrections (overall exposure, contrast,
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image editing software, starting with a well -exposed and composed image makes editing simple and
OUTPUT
Now that the best images are organized, selected, keyworded, and cropped, Lightroom allows the

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CATALOG BACKUP
Lightroom automatically backs up it’s
catalog and it’s preview images of your
It does not backup your original images
(stored wherever you decide to store
SUMMARY
This paper was written to show doctors the current state-of-the-art in dental digital asset management
management simple and fun, as well as allowing the dental practitioner to easily use the images in a
BREAKING NEWS
been using the beta version of this software for weeks and can report it’s a much improved product
Steven H. Goldstein, DDS
Dr. Goldstein received his DDS degree in 1985 from Georgetown
University. From 1987-1990 Dr. Goldstein completed the Periodontal
Prosthesis program at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds two
advanced dental degrees; one in Periodontics and the other in
Periodontal Prosthesis/Fixed Prosthodontics. He maintains a private
practice in Scottsdale, Arizona, limited to implant, prosthetic and
cosmetic dentistry. He has been involved in photography for over 35
years and teaches courses in dental digital photography.
E-mail: shgdds@mac.com
Website: www.stevenhgoldsteindds.com
Social Media: www.facebook.com/stevenhgoldsteindds
Dental Digital Photography Workshops
DR. GOLDSTEIN is available for dental digital photography workshops.
please contact him below:
Please note the below advice before using any photo software: