Capturing the Face
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A free video from Dr. Elaine Halley. Smile design needs structure, and it starts with what you capture. You cannot analyze what you have not captured. In this video, Dr. Halley walks through what to photograph and why each image earns its place, starting with the single most important shot.
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WHAT THE VIDEO COVERS
What to capture, and why each image earns its place.
- You diagnose without the patient in the room. Comprehensive cases are planned in patient-free time. A missing or badly taken image is found too late to fix without a recall.
- One photograph drives the whole analysis. The wide smile from the front is the most-used image in the system. The lines drawn on it guide every judgment about midline, smile arc, and proportion.
- The face comes first. Capture sets up an outside-in analysis: face, then dentofacial relationship, then individual tooth, the level where most smile design decisions are actually made.
- Video catches what stills miss. A smile is movement. Video shows the true smile line, dynamic function, and phonetics that a posed photograph hides.
- No special kit required. A smartphone captures everything you need, and capturing well the first time protects the patient experience, no awkward recalls.
WHY IT MATTERS
Capture is the part that makes everything else possible.
Capture is not the glamorous part of smile design. It is the part everything else depends on. When you have captured the patient well, you can sit down in protected, patient-free time, what Dr. Halley calls the pause and Focus Time, and reopen the whole case with everything in front of you.
No piecemeal information. No guessing. Just a clear picture, ready to work from. Get this part right and everything that follows lands properly.
In the video, you will also see why Dr. Halley reads a patient’s body language as carefully as she frames the shot, and how to do all of it on a smartphone if that is what you have.
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Where the capture stage leads.
Capture is the first stage of a larger system. The Complete Smile Analysis System works from the outside in, analyzing at the Macro, Mid, and Micro levels using the Guided Observation Record to keep the thinking structured. You define the ideal outcome, brainstorm the options, and build a case the patient understands and trusts. Three live sessions, each building on the one before.
Explore the Smile Analysis System →About Dr. Elaine Halley
Dr. Elaine Halley has spent over thirty years in private practice and is one of the UK's most recognized voices in comprehensive treatment planning. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1992, achieved her MSc in Aesthetic and Restorative Dentistry with Distinction from the University of Manchester, and completed advanced cosmetic dentistry training at the Rosenthal Institute in New York.
A founder and past president of the British Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr. Halley remains one of only a handful of accredited members in the UK. She is a Digital Smile Design Master accredited personally by Christian Coachman, an official DSD instructor, and a member of Align Technology's Global Faculty. She is the principal dentist at Cherrybank Dental Spa in Perth, Scotland, the practice she founded in 1995, and the Clinical Director of the Pain Free Dental Group across Scotland, where she mentors associates on diagnosis and treatment planning every week.