Accuracy of Dental Photography: Professional vs. Smartphone’s Camera
Table 1
Mean (SD) in cm of the width of teeth obtained from different photographs.
Teeth
Scan
DSLR
16 cm
20 cm
24 cm
28 cm
32 cm
15
0.25 (0.05)a
0.24 (0.06)ab
0.17 (0.06)c
0.20 (0.07)bc
0.22 (0.07)ab
0.23 (0.06)ab
0.23 (0.06)ab
14
0.29 (0.04)a
0.29 (0.06)ab
0.22 (0.06)c
0.25 (0.06)bc
0.26 (0.06)ab
0.28 (0.05)ab
0.28 (0.05)ab
24
0.29 (0.04)a
0.27 (0.05)ab
0.22 (0.05)c
0.24 (0.05)bc
0.25 (0.05)ab
0.27 (0.05)ab
0.27 (0.05)ab
25
0.26 (0.06)a
0.23 (0.07)ab
0.19 (0.06)c
0.20 (0.06)bc
0.21 (0.06)ab
0.23 (0.06)ab
0.24 (0.06)ab
SD: standard deviation. Dental teeth are in international nomenclature. For teeth 13, 12, 11, 21, 22, and 23, differences between photographs were not statistically significant (). For each row, different lowercase letters indicate statistically significant differences ().
