A photography protocol you don't have to build.
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A free clinical guide from Dr. Elaine Halley. The complete capture protocol for every comprehensive case: extraoral, intraoral, and the reasoning behind each image. Your first appointment captures everything diagnosis, design and case planning will need.
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WHAT CHANGES IN YOUR PRACTICE
A complete capture stage that runs without you.
- A standardised shot list your whole clinical team can follow, eliminating case-by-case decisions about which views to take
- The five coaching cues that turn the wide smile photograph into a usable diagnostic image, every time
- The clinical reasoning behind every view, so your nurse takes better photographs and you catch the ones that need retaking
- A printable Clinical Discovery checklist that turns photography into a practice system, not a clinician-dependent skill
- The Photograph → Guided Observation map showing how each image feeds Macro, Mid and Micro-level diagnosis
WHY IT MATTERS
Photographs are the raw material for everything that follows.
Diagnosis. Smile design. Treatment planning. Case presentation. Lab communication. Every one of them depends on the photographs taken at the first appointment.
When the image set is inconsistent (and in most practices, it is), the work downstream slows down. You recall the patient, or you proceed on partial data, or you scramble for additional views mid-case. The fix is upstream: a standardised capture stage that every team member runs the same way, every time.
That's what the guide gives you. The protocol Dr. Halley uses inside the Clinical Discovery Appointment in her own practice, the same one taught inside The Complete Smile Analysis System.
The Complete Smile Analysis System
Proven Workflow for Organizing and Capturing Case Details. Leave with a Repeatable Diagnostic Sequence.
- 6-PART SERIES
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- 90-DAY RECORDINGS
Dr. Elaine Halley
BDS, MSc
INCLUDED WITH COURSE
- Attend live and watch on-demand
- 16 CE hours
- Track CE progress in your course dashboard
- 4 clinical workflow tools
- Live Q&A: get your questions answered
THE FULL COURSE
Where your workflow goes next.
The photography protocol is the first stage of a larger clinical system. The Smile Analysis System teaches the diagnostic framework, smile design language, treatment planning workflow and case presentation method that turn those photographs into predictable cases. Six modules across three live Saturdays and three on-demand releases, taught by Dr. Halley in September and October 2026.
Learn about 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.